Show S A Tl Test t of or Childhood From Flom Children and Their Pets In Inthe the lire San Francisco Fire Fite in September St. St Nicholas Those Nicholas Tho s-Tho Those e four Cour days following follow follow- ing lug the tire earthquake were a test of ot childhood such as tho tire world has seldom sel sel- sei- sei dom dem known Thousands ThoU of or children saw their homos homes burning their school schoolhouses houses burning the whole great groat reat city burning and heard night antI and day the tho boom of oC 11 dynamite blowing up houses and stores stoles and churches in the tire desperate ties lIes I rate effort to stop sop the fire Many Ian hud had little or nothing to eat cat and antI even drinking water V hard to find but butas butas n as the they walked alon along with their parents par pat erts eilts going g they knew kner not where they did not complain or cr cry Little hands held tightly to those the they loved lovell fin aIr J little heads were held erect as they walked for fo countless blocks to lo some park lark or OJ open ground boon beyond the fires fire's path |