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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 549

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MPSES OF FOREIGN FIRE-BRIGADES [Sept., Enough firemen are found in each London firestation to make up three of our fire-companies,but only one third of these men are in service oron call-duty at a time, the rest being held inreserve to answer any other alarms which mightcome in, or to reinforce the… … A LONDON HORSE LADDER-ESCAPE. to adjust their helmets, which hang in long rowson the walls of the apparatus floor, before jump-ing on the engines; and no exception is made tothis rule, even with the men on the last or nighttour —from 9 p.m. until 7 a.m. This accounts forthe pictures we sometimes…

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