| Show dav ed I 1 E I 1 jill a seattle judae t recovered from aca fro his tile bv fx agui rio alfi a ake directory aida i r ae C korv to r v Y r valuable library u aw ili 3 around the corner comer from the tree free lunch emporium there had been an alarm of fire and some excitable ten ant had bad flung a costly lamp from the second story window and then run down stairs with a dustpan and brush and deposited them carefully on the strip of sod beside the front entrance when the man with the stogie came in undoubtedly it la is a difficult mattor to keep onee ones head in times of emergency interrupted the oracle la in a tone which implied the opinion that the meek man bad had been usurp ing some of hia prerogatives in talking at all this reminds me of my friend strove the hon ron 11 0 strove of seattle who was pretty prominent out there about the time of the great fire during the raging of the conflagration which made seattle look like half balf a dozen punched nickels strove ruen bed up into hia his office to save some of his ewt mr st valuable books he had accumulated a lot of material which he wan working up into a history of state and this material and some of his books were mality precious to him bo so as the fire came down upon his office he began to select the books be he desired most to save 11 ah ab this Is to one III bakel he told himself hime elf grabbing up one no this Is worth more alit ah theres one ive zot to have and all the time the flames flumes were getting clover and the paint on the outside of the office wall began to smoke just then the firemen began to yell outside come down judge come out 0 that the blamed ranch has sot got to go like the reef rest of emi says they still hesitated until finally one of the boys tore up the smoking stairway and hurst burst open his office door quick git out 0 this thial bo he yelled being thoroughly alamed by that time and still undecided turned and grabbed the fis book in reach and rushed out of tho the building the roof root caved in la before be he got across the street lie stopped panting and looked at the valuable volume ho he had saved it was the city brecto |
