HAMPDEN FIRES.
[TO THE EDITOR.] Si Li, —I notice iu your’s of Saturday a letter from Hampden, and verily that little township contains a Milton and a Mark Twain (the sublime and the ridiculous) combined in the person of your highly gifted “ occasional.” The mighty flames spoken of were, indeed, rather near that Bridge of Sighs in the afternoon, but a few buckets tilled from the murmuring brook close by effectually subdued the monster, and had it not been for tires lighted afterwards by some of the brave fellows in their xeal to save the bridge, I believe there would have been no need for the two men to sit up all night. I trust they were not very frightened by the terrible death cries they must have heard ; at any rate they had some Dutch courage at hand, I hear, in the shape of two gallons of Waipawa. —I am, &c., One of the H. F. Brigade.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume IX, Issue 880, 14 January 1886, Page 2
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