Part 4 (2/2)
”That's so,” agreed Mr Stietting out them horses”
”Any of 'em hurt?”
”The bayis scratched on the fore quarter But, land! that's nothin' They'll be all right in a day or two”
”Pretty heavy loss, ain't it, neighbor Stimson?” asked Mr Peter Appelby, who lived next to theelad it wasn't the house”
”Guess you kin be Land! but it did go quick! I never see such a fierce fire I sure thought them two boys would be burned to death,”
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”So did I,” adht”
”But it ht have been worse”
”That's so”
There was nothing more that could be done The horses and coere taken in charge by several neighbors, who agreed to keep them until Mr Stimson could build a temporary barn Then, as there was little more to see, for the barn was now co
”Lakeville ought to have a fire department,” said Bert, as he walked home with his chureed Cole ”I got a hose rigged up on it, an' if our house got afire, I could put it out as easy as pie”
”Yes, it's a good pump of yours,” ad engine, and soht have saved the barn”
”The Selecty to appropriate any money for a fire departo, whenever came of it”
”This is a miserly town, anyhow,” added Cole ”They never have any Fourth of July celebration”
”That's right,” agreed his chue the next day but the fire at the barn Bert and Vincent were praised on all sides, and when Bert appeared in the streets, with one hand bandaged up, where it had been slightly burned, he was congratulated by nearly every one who irl
”If Constable Stickler had given the alarot there quicker, we could have saved the barn,” said Moses Sagger, the owner of the only butcher shop in town
He was a ade could never have put out that fire, Moses,” said Peter Appelby ”There wasn't water enough”
”Yes, there was Didn't we put out the fire at Sio?”
”Yes, but that was only his henhouse, when his wife put a charcoal fire in it to keep the hens warm so's they'd lay more That wasn't much of a blaze Besides, it was in the daytiet water froh for Lakeville,” declared the butcher ”What's the use of talking? I've seen it do good work”
”Well,fire We need a regular department, that's e do”