The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-04

away after the engine, leaving his par
ents to their wonderment.
When he reached the burning house
which was in the middle of the only
brick block in Garfield. the firemen
were establishing fire lines in order to
keep the crowd from getting in the
way.
OF course Harry did not mind the
fire lines, as he was out of reach: be-
sides he might be Of assistance. Was
he not a sort of walking ladder?
What is that?" shouted everybody
who saw him. and half the population
fell to rubbing eyes; but in moment
there was a scream from the burning
dwelling, and all eyes were rivetted
upon a second-story window, where a
child had suddenly appeared. Behind
the little fellow flames and smoke: in
front the street.
Harry was forgotten in the excite
ment that followed. The hook and
ladder company had not arrived, and
good reason. They had lost a wheel
in turning a corner and the firemen
were now pulling off ladders and run
ming with them to the fire. But thew
would be too late to be of any service
to the boy, whose need was imme-
date.
He climbed over the window ledge.
and was about to cast himself into
the street.
Don't jump" yelled Harry. "I
can save you'll"
He stepped to the window and the
frantic child allowed himself to be
grabbed by the waist and pulled from
his perilous perch.
But when Harry had picked him up
he did not know how to set him down.
He could not stoop on his stills, and
he could not drop the child, and yet
at any moment the stills might break
under their combined weight.
AS for the crowd and the firemen.
they were speeches. with astonish-
ment. To see a boy in mid air, sturdi-
ly holding up little tot, and going
through all the motions of walking
was something they could not under
stand, but when Harry, seeing an open
window on the other side of the street,
stepped over and put the child in
there, they understood that, and a
cheer went up from every throat.
The next minute the belated firemen
came running full tilt with their lad
der, and Harry's invisible stills being
in their course they were knocked
from under him, and he would have
fallen If he had not frightened his hold
on the pole and jumped right into the
middle of the crowd, which scattered
at his descent.
He ran around the corner and made
tn circuit of the square. When he
returned on the other side no one
recognized him, and he was free to
watch the efforts of the firemen, who
soon subdued the fire But every now
and then gallant fire fighter would
trip over the invisible stills and go
headlong, so at last Harry made a rush
through the lines despite the shouts
of an angry policeman (the only one
of which Garfield could boast, and he
wasn't worth boasting about, and by
feeling with his feet he secured the
stiits. He carried them under his arms
until he was out of sight of the crowd
and then, the fire being practically
over, he mounted them and made his
way home, where. he arrived with a
good appetite for breakfast and where
he was kept busy answering questions
and telling of the cause of the broken
glass and his part in the fire, and the
wonderful gift of the djinn.
but the stills aren't as much fun
as the automobile was" said Harry.
II think I'll use em for hen roosts and
get the djinn to give me something
else"
That was some time ago, but to this
day Harry's hens perch on invisible
roosts. He had to train them to do
it, and for that he deserves a great
deal of credit, for if there is a stupid
animal in this world of ours, 1t ia a
hen.