Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-02-25
MR.. AND MRS. sowsea.


The Old Man Demonstrates Ills Gr~at
Presence of Mud
Mrs Bowser, 1t is possible that this house
may take fire some time" observed Sir
Bowser as he laid aside his paper the other
evening
YES
IF it takes fire while | am AT nome all |
expect OF you Is 10 take the child aud got out
doors ! shall peru my Iife 10 subiue the
confagration, aud II ilnd il cannot he done
shall save all the valuablcs,"
perhaps | could help YOU
And perhaps you couldn't You'd do
more damage than good If you tried to ! want
you to remember and get right out and stay
cut"
II have been told that | had great presence
OF mind, MIR Bowser,n
YES, and you may have been told that you
were the empress OF Russia Presence Of
mind There isn't woman on earth who'd
have presence Of mind enough In case Of a
fire to save her own shoesl All want of you
is 70 follow my directions"
II was singular that the test should come 70
soon. In lighting the gas in the hall up stairs
MIR Bowser must have dropped the match
upon a rug lying near We were hardly in
bed before smelled smoke, but when men
/, toned the fact Mr.. Bowser growled;
AfbHSSiStl AhSNtph pibbApi1 AhitW Wptiio
eggshells into the range when she wns clear
ing up her supper dishes Your nose is al
ways smelling Dire or burglars or sewer gas,
and 1t is always wrong
He went TO sleep and ! continued TO sniff
that odor. Ten minutes after MIR. Bowser
had uttered his first snore thick cloud OF
smoke poured into our bedroom all Of a sud
/ den, and at the same mcment the darkness
was lighted up by a aickering fame. The
house was certainly ON fire, and shook Mr.
Bowser aGd informed him Of the fact
"W-what is itr he gasped, as be sat up
| In bed
The house is on frel Can't you see the
smoke and the blazer
| was out on the floor and dressing me
when he rolled out Of bed, sprang to the door
and shouted at the top Of his voice;
"Murderl Police. Firel Wear all on fire
up herei'
well, slip on your clothes and see II you
can't put it out. 1t must be in the back hall"
"Firei Fire Fire!" he yelled as he sought
TO pull on his pants "our house is on tire
We shall be- burned alivel"
He rlisheel to the telephone and rang 1t CON
tinuousy for twenty seconds, and then
yelled:
Hello. centrall Hello, centrall Firei
Firel Firei My house is on tirel Send up
the police and three engines right awayln
He couldn't wait for an answer, but took
three or four circuits around the sitting
room, made a dash into the parlor and out
by the front hall, all the time yelling, "FireI"
at the top OF his voice, and then it occurred
to him TO 60 20 the fire alarm box down on
the corner. Out he rushed, barefooted and
bareheaded, and after trying for half min
ute TO pull the box of the post no ran TO the
residence where the key was kept His shouts
and yells had aroused everybody within half
a mile, and the possessor Of the key threw up
his window and called
"ls that you, BowserT
ayes, it's mel Ny house is on fireln
"Surci didn't see any light over there"
ats on fire from cellar to garret, and
expect my wife and child have perished In
the lamesW
That's awful! Here's the key"
Mr.. Bowscr not only turned IN one alarm,
but be kept on sending them in until the first
| steamer arrived, aud the driver of II ordered
him away from the box and called him q
! blank fool Five engines came rushing up,
and had got the smoke out Of the hall and
was down stairs when a dozen firemen dashed
up the steps to fight the confiagration |
showed them up stairs to investigate. Mr.
Bowser went with them. After they got
through laughing they turned ON Mr.. Bow
ser. They called him 10y 1JO different titles,
besides advising him TO so and sandpaper
and soak his head They sneered ut bis ex-
cuses and laughed at his explanations, and ~
they retired one of them remarked:
Its a good thing for you, old bowlsgs,
that you have got guardian!"
When they had gone and we were left TO
ourselves Mr.. Bowser looked very important
and observed.
well, made mighty short work of that
| blaze
"Youl What did you DOR asked
"What did dot Mrs. Bowser, do you in
tend To claim any credit for extinguishing
| that blazer
II do, But for me the house would have
gone Mr., Bowser, you were 80 ratified that
| you acted like crazy man.
What you put out the irel i rattledl
i Mrs Bowser, this is too much. | see through
| the conspiracy. On several occasions you
have driven me to the limit. This is beyond"
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