ritches. we got to the frunt
door together and we cood see a big blaiz up towards
Ikes. gosh i was scart. when father sed them
devils has did it at last i thougt it was all boys
play but i gess it was real. it means stait prizon for
life for sombudy. i was so scart that i cood hardly
maik my hine legs go but i kep up. all the bells
was ringing and evrybudy was hollering fire. when
we got there Pewts father and Beanys father and
old Filander and old Nat Weaks and old Bill Greanleef
and old printer Smith and old Parry Moulton
and old Gus Brown and Pewt and Beany and evryone
were pumping water into lether buckets and
pales and hollering where in hell is the ingines and
this is a hell of a fire dipartment and rushing round
and getting in each others way and swaring and
luging out the firniture and throwing crockery
through the windows. old Bill Greanleaf lowered
his wife out of her chamber by tying her to a sheet
and then clim down hisself when all he had to do
was to go down stares and out of the door. and
it was only 10 feet high and they cood have gumped
if necesary. old Mrs. Sawyer fainted ded away
and sumbudy throwed a pale of water on her and
she gumped up and called him all the naims she
cood think of.

jest then the Torent No 2 come down the strete
with the men on the roap running on the cleen
gump. they stoped by the reservor and run out the
hoze and let down the pipe and then found that they
had left the nozzle at the ingine house upon the
plains and they sent a feller up there on horseback
and all they cood do was to pump water into pales
whitch helped sum but not mutch. then the fellers
formed bucket lines and kep a pumping and pouring
and wondering where the Union No 1 and
Fountain No 3 were.

it tirned out after the fire was over that the moon
was rising in Hamton Falls and that they saw the
lite and went down there as fast as they cood hiper
thinking there was a big fire and when they got way
up to Isiar Hanes house the moon was up so that
they cood see what it was and they was so tuckered
out runing a mile and a haff up hill that they
coodent do a single thing but set down and sware
and call each other dam fools. they was even two
tuckered out to fite and most always firemen is ready
to fite and so they must have been prety well used
up.

well we fellers whitch was at the fire wirking our
heads off and triing to save old Bill Greanleef and
his wife and Ike and his wife and old Bill Morill
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