Date: 1898
The English houses, to be sure, have recently gotten out from home one of their small steam " gar den-pumps," and many of the young Britons have had weekly practice in manipulating its various parts.  When the alarm for the present fire rang you might have seen several servants, employed in their re spective homes by the members of the new Volunteer Fire Department, slowly wandering toward the shed where the engine was kept, with some nicely folded red shirts, coats with brass buttons, helmets with Matterhorn-like summits, and axes that shone from lack of work.  These youths did not seem to be in any hurry, and it turned out that when they reached the engine-house, when their masters had togged