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back to the fire. Throw. Run. When the trough was empty, they ran to the water butt instead; this was a large metal barrel filled with rainwater.
For the most part, it all absorbed Alex entirely, but fortunately Mary seemed able to work and think. When Atherton began to flag at the pump, she yelled to Cook to take his place. When Alex felt like he couldn’t run any more, she shouted at him to take the hose from Ruby and let her run. Holding the hose wasn’t much easier than running, however; it was very hot this close to the fire, and very smoky and hard to breathe. Alex, remembering something he’d read in a book once, turned the hose on to his T-shirt and pulled it up and over his mouth and nose. It helped, a
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