Show The Round Table By CHUCK AKERLOW Wednesday night I was peacefully driving to my abode in Bountiful when all of the sudden sirens and red lights came screaming up behind me on close inspection I saw two fire engines were off and says I. I'll sweep the nation with this I can see it now SALT LAKE DESTROYED BY FIRE AN AKERLOW OFF I WENT in pursuit of the fire engines and 50 cars following They headed for the hills into a new residential area and converged upon one darkened house darkened because no one was me sir but is your house on course not you the firemen looked at one Where was the So they began an exhaustive They roamed up and down the housing Neighbors were out on the lawns kids were running after the in his long sleek car he probably borrowed from his the fire chief drove the asked the who was wearing a white steel do you mean you can't find the Soon the town marshal sped up in his long sleek He was wearing a soft blue cap A quick surveillance was made of the 50 cars following the fire engines and then the marshal must be in the other housing the Why didn't I think f that AND OFF we all went to the other housing All of us 50 the the two fire engines and we'll find shouted one Over the muddy streets of the development we The streets got narrower and narrower and still no Not even any chimney I know someone called in an By this time many of the development's citizens were standing on the lawns in nightshirts and similar bed-time The marshal was coordinating He had the whole show under In a traffic jam TWO HOURS LATER after an intense search of the South Davis County area the firemen and I went No But someone had called one in to the fire if he I hope he was able to extinguish the blaze himself if there was a A special flower goes to the Who else would get up in the middle of the put on a steel borrow his wife's just to go out and get caught in a traffic Better a rose to the Always keeping a constant vigil on the happenings of Ever alert to the current of Ever mindful of my duty to |