Chapter 20 of 41 · 60 words · ~1 min read

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The engines!--I hear them come rumbling; There’s the Phœnix! the Globe! and the Sun! What a row there will be, and a grumbling When the water don’t start for a run! See! there they come racing and tearing, All the street with loud voices is fill’d; Oh! its only the firemen a-swearing At a man they’ve run over and kill’d!