fire-district

Updated: May 22, 2025

For there were not only taps to signify each new fire-district, one for the first, two for the second, three, four, five, six seven, eight, and nine, but there was also one lone toll at mid-day for the hungry mechanic, and nine at the evening hour when the tired workman called his children in from the street and turned to his couch, and the slave must show cause in a master's handwriting why he or she was not under that master's roof.

George Washington Cable - Dr. Sevier