Show t 0 f ii I fj 1 It was ten minutes past 2 o'clock clock Inthe in inthe inthe the morning and Wiggins was in the midst of a dream wherein he had just cashed a 10 ticket 15 to 15 1 on a to shot and was very busy counting the money when his wife brought him back to earth by shaking his shoulder violently fim lim Jim she cried hoarsely In his ear Wake up The house is on fire In a moment he was on the chilly chUly floor wide awake and as calm as a drowning man who sees the ship from which he fell fading in the distance Jim put some clothes on If youre you're going out out commanded Mrs Wiggins s sternly ernly a as she saw the head of the ho house s get a fresh grip on the center table and start lor nor the side door time shouted her spouse Grab something and come on on This way cried Mrs Wiggins glancing at her robe d de a nuit Are Are you going to stop and put on on n your traveling dress demanded her husband tugging at the latch door when the house may be a roaring any minute Saying which he Jerked the door open dashed out Into the yard and deposited the center table on the lawn I wonder wonder if the upstairs are awake awake awake cried Mrs Wiggins Wiggins- as asher asher he her husband da dashed hed back a after after- ter a rug rug By George that s s so shouted the volunteer salvage corps Ill run up and see r r On the landing he found Jenkins with Mrs JenKins JenKins' hat on his h head ad and a cat in In his arms arms struggling valiantly vail vail- antly to keep Mrs Jenkins from dashIng dashing dash- dash f fing Ing ing- back into the flat fiat There was Jas not even a cloud of smoke in the rooms Save yourselves ves yelled Wiggins There Isn't a a moment to lose Just tl then en the glare that had lighted up the neighborhood suddenly died 4 out The firemen had directed a stream of water where It would do the most good on the house next door and It was all aU ot off The crowd of f spectators spectators tors scurried away In the darkness and and the the the- hose companies began reeling up Wiggins looked looked at Jenkins rather doubtfully I d dont don't nt believe were we're on fire art after r all he said It looks as if the dan danger danger ger gel were about over What do you think wed we'd better do asked Jenkins peering peering- out t through the window to where the fire fire fire- department was le leaving for home Well for one thing Mrs Jenkins suggested tartly you might take ot off my hat And then Wiggins crept downstairs downstairs' and brought In the center table and and other things from the lawn and told his lils wife there was no sense in getting getting excited ov over r a little smoke |