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He bit suddenly into the fireman's cheek just where the flesh droops in a fold over the lower jaw, and was fortunate enough to secure a grip that bade fair to hold; then he crooked his leg at the back of his opponent's and slowly shoved the fellow's head backward. They came down together, Mr.
Then Avice came up to him, with the child in her arms, and Isa followed, quite safe! How thankful we all were! Avice says she remembered at once that she had been told of the American fireman's orders to his little girl always to keep still in such an alarm, for the crowd was a worse peril than the fire.
Where does the big noise seem to come from?" "No more shows tonight, Dozia," spoke Jane before Sally could answer. "How much do you want for your money? Isn't a fire and a volunteer fireman's comedy enough?" "But I am dreadfully keen on spooks," she was pinching Jane's arm cruelly, "and I thought it was something weird that set off the original alarm." Sally winced.
Meanwhile the Fireman's wife had killed and cooked two chickens; so, as soon as Zau al-Makan entered and seated himself on the carpet, the husband arose and, dissolving sugar in willow flower water, made him drink of it.
And, for a time, there was much hurrying to and fro, much hunting here and there for things that had been mislaid. "Where's my red hat?" called Charlie Star as he looked back of a piece of scenery that had a little brook painted on it. "Has anybody got my red hat?" "Is it a fireman's hat, Charlie?" asked Sue, who was looking for some one to help her pin her dress in the back.
"Franklin's hands had printers' ink on them," he said, "but they were shaken by princes and savans the lightning did not despise them. Garibaldi's fingers were soiled with candle-grease, but they have moulded a free nation. Stephenson's fingers were black with coal, and soiled with machine oil of a fireman's work, but they pointed out highways to commerce and revolutionized civilization.
And when I'm up on a shaky roof in a bad fire, maybe I'll be more ready to take a chance, knowing that if I go through and cripple myself, there's something coming to the wife and family after it." The fireman's argument holds for the navy, except that in the navy they get through younger and with a bigger pension. Is there any romance in the navy nowadays? Who can answer for all?
And still Andrews stood there, with his eyes closed, thinking. Tom clambered to the fireman's seat. "Stop here!" called Andrews suddenly. Tom sprang for the brake. "Rip down those wires," Andrews continued. "Two of you men you and you load those ties in the freight car." He pointed to a pile which lay near the track. "Put some of them on the rails."
"What would Phil Bourne say, if he heard we'd let you melt away into I'm going too." The passage out of the cutting was not so difficult as Acton had bargained for; but Worcester and Todd did wonders with the fireman's shovels and made a lane through the drifts.
It was not until three o'clock in the morning that they met and passed the second section of empties, and the dawn of a new day was fully come when the shacks and storehouses of the MacMorroghs' headquarters at the mouth of Horse Creek came in sight. Ford got down from his seat on the fireman's side and stretched himself as one relaxing after a mighty strain.
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