Show THAT FIRE IN AMITY dmd DAF y E I 1 the loss was small but there was i a carrel barrel or of fun fon I 1 earsplitting EAR AB SPLITTING OFTIE WOMEN IEH liar rard ding tells all now blow captain joe it randalls home class was saved and nd several other things were lose io in the shuffle aw br W can comita Comit 1 its t I 1 AMITY DAM me aug 9 0 1802 it unas loss so lilt in amity data dam on that peaceful sunday morning that I 1 carld beer the boy pual pumping plug wind into the or gap preparatory to choir rehearsal in the unitarian L a quarter ol of a mile away I 1 could also hoar bear captain aljoe joe iia udall reaping his bit whiskers in the house across tho the street the rhe grating ol of the thara bruor or was wa not especially ily soothing to the nerves of f tho the listener but it wai ft a soon d I 1 rural sunday moi ning sound and 1 I felt that chat I 1 could boar it it if captain joo joe occasionally people whose steps apon I 1 the boardwalk board walk wall indicated hasto haste passed down door n the he street root choir people ten I 1 all 1 I I 1 fit sure and vowing in he h hearts eart ill it should never mover occur balo and alancin out of the th window I 1 was s not surprised to rind find that thag tiny they wore the tamo santa sacred song songsters who were alwais title late twenty years io ago when I 1 was a boy iu ill the iho town M p ey rf i I 1 i A a 1 I 1 it t foj I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 ha ili I 1 wl 11 I 1 1 ft i I 1 III ill as ill 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 e I 1 I 1 F 9 Z n 1 I 1 I 1 1 the deccio caus call for water I 1 I 1 suddenly Sud deuly a voice cried fire iwas I 1 was on roy my feet cbs in Inas a secona ocona and rushing rii for tte the street A hill half hour wore before I 1 had explained to maude why it was wai imps I 1 lor for mo me to attend church I 1 had described tho ilia debilitation or pay my nervous tissue slid bad reminded her that I 1 hail had como come to tho the country tor for rost rest and not to sit it la in a church pow so designed that the occupant has hai to lo hang tho the back with his tl shoulder blades in order to keep from sliding slid nil oil upon the floor but bui while these lies wore good enough to keep me inia out ot of churda li thoy they did not apply to the case of a tire lire I 1 have the lite old boyish ho lib delight in seeing my neighbors house go up lit smoke and obi pec ecla lall do I 1 enjoy A firo fire in tho the country ilustr Ilus tk know hilow liow how to got gel their mone moneys iris worth I 1 have tv a cri cn more fun at the ha burning of our amity data llam barn v A aich including three horses and a cow worth over 75 than vio via cau can frel in new york out of a million dollar flat fiat house and a lawsuit at oer er the insurance when I 1 reached the street I 1 learned la raol that atio trouble was at captain ran haa dat dali I 1 at first supposed it was occa aces faced by b tho the friction of his razor v which it tell I 1 had bad heard beard earlier in tho the morning becoming so intense ab aa to set the captains a elsker hl afire but this was not tho the calls of it however I 1 did not it have it 1 0 time then to inquire several women implored me to get water I 1 rushed to the cho nearest pump where I 1 found some soma more women trying to fill a receptacle aclo for umbrellas which they had bad aught up tip to lo front ball I 1 gal gallantly antly offered to do tho the pumping slid I 1 should probably still be at work on that job it if somebody om som had not ducov erd that thai the umbrella holder had no bottem botto tn some coffee pots pot end and pitch pitchers ors wore were produced and 6 filled them then wo we made an attack upon tho the devouring oie ale ment dent the only sign of its presence A I 1 i I 1 i 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 14 fielding fiddling docs DOCI the pumping was soma issuing from the roof around one of the clitu chimneys ineys this bolog boing log our guide wo we rushed up into captain u in joo joes attic with our various recep topics thera then we found a young lady taking a hath bath and entirely ignorant Isnora ot of the tait latt that cho house bouso ww was afire silo bad a large tub full of water and really bill not need any wore more it appeared app earsil to surprise tir prisa lor hergo a good oil deal to sea about fifty of her suddenly enter with lah all ail tons sorts of things full of water whom whoa a young woman has decided to lo take tk a bath still and ties has matio mado her own calculations cu for it a water supply she naturally reels hot to find that her friends and even evea comparative strangers a ro co not rord regard her bar preparations as ado quate As ai leader of this delegation I 1 was sol whal embarrass e d myself loy true the he oung lady lied had beard us its approach ing ln in tsuio to array herself becomingly 1 i am aa 0 ald ld fashioned quilt with texts from the th scriptures marked corked into it in I 1 red white and bauo licit bin yet I 1 could not f 1 eill I that the site was glad tos to sen us in fact act abbe he lot lold us to go away la in tones I 1 DIt PlIed anywhere from high C up tip then we all rushed downstairs again and these who wont last spilled all tho the water they imil hid brought upon those who had bad 1 pone polls first the tha young lady whom wo we had 1144 distorted came calmo after us with her I 1 CI clothes Olles tn in her hand nod and the she was dressed on 00 the second floor by four women who tut rut everything on her wrong side before r borei I 1 am in told I 1 at this his lima Ilta maude ude my wife homem beriat acred that captain lian dalli cook mrs buttons had a baby about two years old aid I 1 i ably a oly dr the she slid eald that innocent emu child t s t BOI I 1 bo ba left to omen tho choa re neat to a tho the servants ier vanC room 1 1 1 in A remote part of the iho bouno bootie whore mrs its buttons rut loos who had not heard about an any y ore was vias preparing to lo dross dress her ter baby maude mande it 11 in tier her arms amis exclaiming c something to in the ilio effect that silo sho would rescue it or perish mild and hod fled down the stairs mrs buttons so utterly amazed that silo elio lot let giulo pot got a long start before sho she herself was able to move hand or foot then than silo filio started in pur pursuit sul with it a wild yell ot or protest I 1 havo have not flat boon been wo ablo to hoar boar well lico sanco l ico with the ear that WAS nearest mire buttons when she ho lolled cited aa A she r 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 i i I 1 I 1 A I 1 I 1 11 1 T I 1 ioviti jur arro buttons button tile bibel rushed through ali the hilll ball which led iron from her room to the iho main part a 0 tho ilia house she encountered two men who wore were bringing up tip a large dish pan fall nil of 0 water uter mrs buttons basped b tu call them whore ilia pan was wa and abla abo water it contained lashed dashed down the slat stairs ra like a breaking wave upon several people who were coining up in their S und y dollies clothes meanwhile maude had fallen the ba baby J to lo the ho street where it naturally began to cry maude much of a baad jam d with children so ito she gave the ilia baby to else who pushed passed it 1 along to the ne lie till it ft was wai hustled hus lloil into a house some distance from tile disturbance and put into the hands bands ot of a very nice old lady ho know that bat hero was any liro fire and understand m aby by lit in the midst of a peaceful sunday morn ing nf a francc browall should rush null in fit and out again leaving a screaming I 1 two year old in along a long flannel night dress j naver e th elss she gathered rn the child to her motherly bosom bogom and prepared to do her ter full duty math iab the poor little wall waif us as she had bad by bor bar own tile tho lire fire hud had by this time consumed a portion ol of tour four shingles around captain randalls southeastern chimney and it threatened to spread deacon sammy darker burlier who was just going down to choir rehearsal had thrown os off his bis coat and climbed to the ridgepole where he sat eat and requested water in that clear musical tenor which falch has been I 1 iho lie delight of endless congregations but ho be nei got any water somebody h haj ad sone gone tor for the engine and everybody m was as hafting wafting for it to comin come it came pretty soon and they run the suction a pipe down into tho the captains yell well bile john bobny y brooks climbed to tho the root with tho the hose base captain randalls attic was by this time full ot of tile the cream of the churchgoing church going people ol of amity da daab T johny jenny looked in upon them through ill the a window in the roof and appeared to bo be sensible that lo lie win was addressing a dis dir company 1 hay ho he called do ye see any fire in there As lie spoke abd tbd of the hose rests gently ou the bramo ot the tha window and just at that minute the abo men below began to pump away on the engines brakes a sturdy crowd in fit amity dam and the stream they forced through that hose would fiat bob have als graced a city st earnor unhappily by lys carelessness it was directed on to the midst of the assembled multitude in the attic there was no fire in sight but thoro there was a good deal of nater star and the crowd that attempted to escape down the lite captains narrow stairs did not dot compost itself with tile llie dignity ft it had bad a few moments before on oil its way to tho the meeting la the tha confusion somebody was heard beard to say damn with a terror fervor fully up to the 0 the situation and the to town n Is now divided into political parties on the ques que lion of who said it hut but by and by sammy discovered that cho captains well water was being and tio lie directed the stream alrea against the burning shingles in a flow few minutes they were extinguished and tho the now celebrated ire fire at captain randalls was over however there were a few little matters to straighten out A thoughtful lady who be had bad seen deacon bunker remove his coat had bad taken it in charge so sn chrt no lie harm should como come to it she bad carried it to her homo home and then in fit the abe excItement bad forgotten forgoston for golton all about it den deacon on barker searched for it with natural solicitude A maude saw him bim looking lookia ff about with deadly anxiety in calory line of his face land and with quick feminine intuition she jumped to the conclusion that lie ho runs must be the father of lb bat at baby soshe hunted the ibo baby up and laid it in his bis arms groad P the tha deacon but maude interrupted him do nat thank me air she ho a said I 1 I 1 have done only my simple duty and she hurried away I 1 how the deacon got rid ot of tho the child I 1 do donot not kaow know but mrs buttons jot got hint at last then the crowd dispersed amity dam berame bufaino quiet again and presently preson ll from my window I 1 heard deacon barker loading leading tho cho dobol doxology I 1 in his thin shirt sleeves but not less piously for that rIEL DIG |