Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 337
-pathy and encourage-ment. The swift horsewins the race; and inthese days he may causeconsiderable money tochange hands, in whichthere is certainly no-thing that is commen-dable. But the quickhorse I write aboutsaves life, saves prop-erty, and under modernconditions of life isessential to our… … There was a great deal of fun in the business,but fires were not extinguished. Our cities inthe early days were not built to prevent fires, 8.] THE QUICK HORSE. 123 but seemed, if anything, rather built to en-courage them. In France we may well be amused as wewatch the pompier corps trundle its…
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