fire-fightin

Updated: January 17, 2026

He went on to his companion, irritably, pressing his hand to his side: "There ain't no use talkin', I got to quit fire-fightin'. My heart 'most gi'n out on me in the hottest of that. And yit I'm only sixty!" "It ain't no job for old folks," said the other bitterly.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - The Bent Twig