The Wozzle (Eng.) Fire Brigade.
The following is a cutting from an English daily newspaper, kindly sent us by an English subscriber:
We have had another burst of public spirit here, eclipsing even that which culminated in our getting a gas lamp. Some think it has been due to the fact that Wozzle has been most insultingly alluded to, in open country council, as behind the age. Others attribute it to the circumstance that Dibbs, our family grocer and moving spirit, lately had another difference with his wife. I am inclined to the latter explanation myself. Whenever Mrs. Dibbs takes exercise with the family grocery, Dibbs slinks off to the Rising Sun and consoles himself by proposing schemes for the improvement of the parish—schemes whose furtherance keeps him legitimately away from the domestic hearth. Be that as it may, Dibbs, and no other, suggested the fire engine, between two rubs at the back of his head, and it was not long before we got one.
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