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Show Made Costly Bonfire, MrB. Christian Kabb of Hartland Hollow, Conn., a farming village, told her children to tako their father's old felt boots outdoors and burn thorn up. Sho was doing her spring house-cleaning, and could not bear tho sight of them. The children did as directed and tho high wind blew a spark from the, bonfire Into a dry meadow nearby) near-by) Igniting the grass. A calf grazing In Mho lot caught fire, ran Into tho barn and set some hay ablaze. In a Jiffy tho building was In flames. Tho barn, with bIx head of stock, was destroyed, de-stroyed, also a tobacco warehouse Tho flro spread to woodland and burned over 60 acres before villagers conquorcd It. |