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Show Dragging Their Hosiery. Little Arlene was familiar with the appearance of the garden hose at home, but when she observed a line of fire hose, with its great length and bulk lying serpent-like in the street, she immediately inquired what it was. Her mother replied that was firemen's hose, and the child went on watching the fire. In the meantime two additional fire companies dashed up, and these newly arrived fire fighters were carrying their respective lines toward the burning burn-ing building, when little Arlene spied them. "Oh, mamma," she cried, craning her neck out of the crowd, "here comes more firemen dragging their hosiery behind them!" Lippincott's. |