gosh if we dident have a auful time today. in
the morning me and Beany went up to the church and rung the bell, we had
a good time and rung it jest so many rings jest as mister Watson, Beanys
father told us to, then me and Beany both got kep after school, and when
we got out we asked Noot Crummet what time it was and he said it was
jest 1 oh clock and that the town bell had jest struck and then me and
Beany jest put for the church as tite as we cood hiper, and we was prety
near tuckered out when we got there and we both grabed hold of the roap
and begun to ring the bell. well we only rung it a few times before we
herd sumone holler fire, and then more peeple begun to holler and we
looked out and we saw Charles Fifield and Charly Batcheldor and Chick
Randall and Jimmy Josie jest putting it for the ingine house, and Beany
said buly they is a fire, and we begun to ring the bell as hard as we
cood and holler fire. then the Methydist bell begun to ring and then the
upper house bell, and Charles Tolls horses came galoping down to the
fountain ingine house with Mat Sleeper driving. And Mager Blakes horses
went by jest lickety larup for the Torrent ingine house with old Brown
driving, and then Flunk Ham came piling into the church and said, give
me that roap and he puled like time, then sum peeple came runing in and
said where is the fire, and Flunk he said we dident know, and then we
herd the ingine and went out and they was the Torrent and the fountain
and lots of men, and they said where in hel is the fire and nobody
knowed where it was.
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