. The adventures of Joel Pepper . Little David, seeing the stove behaving sowell, gave a sigh of reUef, and coming slowlyout of his fright, clattered after Joel, and soonthey were down back of the house, where theyhad scooped out the ground, and filling it withwater, had made what they called a they now began to sail boats made out ofbits of paper. Hi — there — you ! shouted a harsh and David, absorbed in getting their boatsacross the pond without running into eachother, didnt hear. Hi! yelled the voiceagain, your house is afire ! Joel lifted his black head and stared. Com
. The adventures of Joel Pepper . Little David, seeing the stove behaving sowell, gave a sigh of reUef, and coming slowlyout of his fright, clattered after Joel, and soonthey were down back of the house, where theyhad scooped out the ground, and filling it withwater, had made what they called a they now began to sail boats made out ofbits of paper. Hi — there — you ! shouted a harsh and David, absorbed in getting their boatsacross the pond without running into eachother, didnt hear. Hi! yelled the voiceagain, your house is afire ! Joel lifted his black head and stared. Comehere, you ! screamed a man, jumping out ofa wagon in the middle of the road, in front ofthe little brown house. He was big and red-headed, and he held a whip in his he shook frantically up toward the roof,screaming, Your house is afire ! Sure enough. Great volumes of smoke camepouring out of the chimney, which wasnt anytoo good, and once in a while a tongue of flamewould sweep out, licking the sides of the .\%.^.v.— twas just as easy as nothing, said JOEL ADVENTURES OF JOEL PEPPER 393 as much as to say, ** You cant shut me upentirely, you see. Oh, how merrily theydanced! Get a bucket. Step lively, if you want tosave your house! roared the man at Joel,who took one good look at the chimney, thensprang for Mamsies pail. Get something,Dave, he screamed, and bring some water. Now that the fire had really come, David,strange to say, felt all his fright dropping fromhim. It was as if Mamsie said, * Save thelittle brown house, dears, and he rushed onthe wings of the wind over down across thelane, and helped himself to Grandma Bascomsbig bucket, always standing on a bench besideher kitchen door. And, with it almost full ofwater, he soon stood by the big red-headedmans side. Youre a likely-headed pair o chaps, saidthe man, as Joel dashed up with his pail, whichhe hadnt been able to find at once, as Mamsiehad put some cloth she was going to bleachinto it, and set
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