Show I I Made Costly Bonfire Mrs Christian Kabb of Hartland Hollow Conn a farming village told her children to take their fathers father's old felt boots outdoors and burn them up her housecleaning house clean She was doing spring ing and could not bear the sight of them The Tho children did as directed and the high wind blew a spark from I Ithe the bonfire Into a dry meadow nearby nearby near near- I I by Igniting the grass A calf grazing In the lot caught fire ran into the barn and set some hay ablaze In a jiffy the building was in flames The barn with six head of ot stock was destroyed destroyed de do also a tobacco warehouse The fire spread to woodland and burned over 50 acres before villagers conquered it |