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Show ROAST PIC ON SECOi STREET Twenty thousand dollars worth of equipment went out to the service of L. E. Hampton of 346 Second street this morning at 3:15, when the fire department was called to put out what looked like a big blaze at his place. It turned out to be a small fire in a pig pen, caused by the dumping of ashes nearby. By 4 o'clock the fire-I fire-I men were back in bed. Mr. Hampton's Hamp-ton's pig was saved, and the total 'amount of damage will be covered by I a $5 bill The Standard reporter's only regret concerning this incident is that some-i some-i thing over a century ago a celebrated j English writer namad Charles Lamb' j wrote an essay on "Roast Pig" which might, In the circumstances, have been , composed In the Standard office this ' morning. |