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Updated: May 21, 2025
With almost animal instinct I threw myself down in the firebreak, pressing hard against the ground to extinguish any smoldering sparks on my clothing, and lay panting, cooling in the dirt. Sam Frye, the mail-carrier, was there, taking charge. All at once a crowd had gathered, attracted by the leaping flames on what had been the settlement of Ammons, running to fight the threatening prairie fire.
Even then it was not the first thought which occurred; for the moment they arrived O'Reilly, who was waiting, turned, facing them excitedly. "Do you see that?" he queried, pointing to a black band that surrounded the building in a complete circle. Parker nodded understandingly; but Mead, who was city bred, looked mystified. "What is it?" he returned. "A firebreak," explained the Irishman.
She crossed the firebreak and rode up over the ridge calling her cheery "Hoo-hoo-hoo!" "She's going to stay all night," exclaimed Ida Mary, seeing the small bag dangling from the saddlehorn. After supper we counted the dimes we had earned from the postcards more than $50. And far into the night we talked of the people who had invaded the Strip.
Hastily Wilbur tied up his horse on the burned-out area, seized his shovel, and started along the line of the fire, beating it out with the flat of his shovel where the flames were small, then going to lee of it he made a firebreak by turning up a narrow line of earth.
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