Part 24 (2/2)
”Three cheers for Mr Bergman!” shouted others
”Three cheers for the boys with the hand engine!” proposed Bert, for he wanted to encourage the little chaps
”They couldn't have put that fire out if it hadn't been for my force-pump!” murmured Cole, amid the cheers that followed
”Say, if you ain to-day,” threatened Toood”
”Well, it's a fine puet beyond To and applause, the unfortunate Weedsport crew being given an extra cheer to make up for the bad luck it had encountered
There wereby thethe fireht to a close
”Line up, Lakeville!” cried Herbert, through his truines, including the old hand affair
They made a brilliant picture in their red shi+rts, blue trousers and shi+ning hel trophy where it would show to the best advantage
With final cheers for each other the four fire departes It had been a great day, and, as Mr Bergman had said, Lakeville had taken several steps forward in the way of progress
”Well, we didn't do so bad,” re the ho chief, ”but there's one thing we've got to look out for”
”What's that?”
”We must not use so much of the solution out of the tank A ser”
”That's so We can't fill the tanks up very hile a fire is in progress”
”That's it This afternoon, if the blaze had lasted a few er, there wouldn't have been any chemicals to squirt on it It was my fault I opened the valve too wide We must re firee, many, who had been to the picnic, but had come hoines clanged out in peals of victory, and when Bert started up a song, his comrades joined in with hio to the town hall, and the other to Cole's barn, a man stepped from the crowd, and approached Bert
”Well, I see you won,” he re up, saw the tramp he had rescued from the water
”Yes Were you there?”
”I saw the final contest Couldn't get away to spend the whole day, though I would have liked to I had to work”
”Where are you working? In town here?” asked Bert, for he was quite interested in the young man
”Yes, I'm employed at the Stockton reatly surprised What he had heard regarding that mysterious house came freshly to hisdone there, Mr--er--Mr ah--”
He paused, for it just occurred to him that he did not know the tramp's name