Page 26 - An Amateur Fireman

"We'll let him hoe his own row till everything is ready, 'cause it may do harm if he gets to thinking somebody
is trying to give him a lift."

"What's to be done with the kid who started the fire?"

"I repeated to the captain all the "amateur" told me, so I reckon he'll be attended to. Is Ben Dunton in the
house?"

"Upstairs asleep."

"Then I'm going out for a bit. I want to see the battalion-chief."

"Going to strike for Seth while the iron's hot, eh?"

"That's what I'm thinking of, Jerry," and while Seth Bartlett was making ready to continue his business of
blacking boots, 'Lish Davis began in his behalf the efforts which he believed would result favorably, so far as
the boy's ambition was concerned.