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Hing.I suppose they'll
let them try it over again . . . .That man must have got a pretty
hard rap.They're carrying him out.His head's all bloody . . . .
Wapatomicas, I guess.Yes, Wapatomicas.I hope the valve's closed
this time.Whope! did you see that?One fellow got hit with a
water bucket and it was about half-full.It's running out of the
spout.Yes, and it's falling on those people right where you wanted
to sit.Hear the girls squeal.Talk about your fun.I don't want
any better fun than this.Look at 'em come down the ladder just
holding the sides with their hands.They couldn't do that if the
ladder was dry.
Ah, here's our crowd.Come on!Come on!Come on!COME ON!Oh,
don't be so slow with those buckets!Aren't they fine?Say, they
don't care if they do spill a drop or two.Why.Why, what are
they coming down for?It isn't running out of the spout yet.Come
back!COME BACK!Oh, pshaw!Just threw it away by being in too
much of a hurry.That judge looks funny, doesn't he, with a rubber
overcoat on and the sun shining?See, he's telling them: "One bucket
more."They'll let 'em have another trial, of course . . . . No?
Oh, that's an outrage.That' s not fair.The Caledonias will get
it now. . . .Yes, sir, they did get it.Oh, well, accidents will
happen.What?"Where's Caledonia now?"Well, they got it by a
fluke.What say? . . .Well only for - Oh, pshaw!Now, don't
tell me that because I was there and -Well, I say they didn't
. . . . I know better, they didn't . . . . Oh, shut up.You don't
know what you're talking about.I tell you -Now, Mary, don't you
interfere.I'm not quarreling.I'm just telling this gentleman
back of me that -Well, all right, if you're going to cry.If
there was any fouling done it was the Caledonias that did it, though.
The next is where they "run three hundred feet from the judges'
stand, raise ladder, hose company to couple to hydrant, break
coupling in hose and put on nozzle, scale ladder, and fill
twenty-five gallon barrel."Only the Caledonias. and our boys are
entered in this.Now we'll see which is the best.All right, Mary,
I won't say a word . . . . Say, for country-jakes, those Caledonias
didn't do so badly.I give them that much.Look at the water fly!
I'll bet those folks near the judges' stand wish they'd brought
their umbrellas.Now you see why these are the best seats, don't
you?I told you I'd been to Firemen's Tournaments before.What?
You'll have to talk louder than that if you want me to hear with
all this noise . . . . Oh, that'll be all right.They'll be so
hungry they won't notice it.
Here, be careful how you wabble that hose around.Good thing
they turned the water off at the plug just when they did or we'd
have been - Here's our company.Where's Caledonia now?Eh?
Pretty work!Pretty work!Say, do you know that hose full of
water's heavy?Now watch Riley.Riley's the one that's got the
nozzle.Always up to some monkeyshine.Ah!See him?See him?
Oh, is n"t he soaking them?Oh-ho!Ho! Ho! ha! ha! hee-hee! Yip.
Blame clumsy fool! ...P-too!Yes, in my mouth and in my
ears and down the back of my neck.All over.Running out of my
sleeves.Everything I got on is just ruined.Completely ruined.
Come on.Let's go home.There's nothing more to see, much.
Aw, come on.Well, stay if you want to, but I'm going home, and
get some dry clothes on me.You get me to go to another Firemen's
Tournament and you'll know it.Look at that monkey from Caledonia
laughing at me.For half a cent I'd go up and smack his face for
him . . . . Aw, let up on your "Where's Caledonia now?"Give us
a rest.Well, are you coming, you folks? . . .Kind of a fizzle
this year, wasn't it?
However, after supper, with dry clothes on, it isn't so bad.The
streets are packed.All the firemen are parading and shouting:
"Who?Who?Who are we?"The Caledonias got one more prize than
our boys.Well, why shouldn't they?Entered in three more events.
I don't see as that's anything to brag of or to carry brooms
about.All the fife-and-drum corps are out, and the bands are all
playing "Hiawatha" at once, but not together.Not all either.
There's one band in front of Hofmeyer's playing "Oh, Happy Day!
That Fixed my Choce."That's funny: to play a hymn-tune in front
of a beer-saloon.Hofmeyer seems to think it's all right.He's
inviting them in to have something."Took the hint?"I don't
understand . . . . Oh, is that so?I didn't know there were other
words to that tune.
See that woman with four little ones.Her husband's carrying two
more."I want to go howm.Why cain't we gow howm?I do' want to
gow howm pretty soon.I want to gow na-ow!"Eh, Mary, how would
you like to lug them around all day and then stand up in the cars
all the way home?
Well, good-by.Hope you had a nice time.Give my regards to all
the folks.Don't be in such a rush, my friend . . . . Oh, did you
see?It must be the man that got hit on the head with the ladder.
Taking him home on a stretcher.Gee!That's tough.Skull
fractured, eh?Dear!Dear!I hear they have been keeping company
a long time, and were to have been married soon.No wonder she
cried and took on so.Poor girl!Yes, it's the women that suffer
. . . .Oh, quite a day for accidents.I didn't mind, though,
after I had changed my clothes.I took some quinine, and I guess
I'll be all right.Lucky you got a seat.Well, you're off at last.
Good-by.Remember me to all.Good-by.
Well, thank goodness, that's over.Another ten minutes of them
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