I had never seen a house on fire before. so, one evening when I heard fire engines with loud alam bells rushing past my house. I quckly ran our and a few streets away, joined a large crowd of people: but we couyld see the fire only from a distance because the police would not allow any one near the building on fire
What a terrible scene I saw that day ! Huge fames of fire were comming out of each floor, and back and thick smoke spread all around. Every now and then tounges of fire would shoot up almost sky-high, sending huge sparks of fire round about.
Three fire engines were busily enga…