Caddy Buddy books

Rowse, John C. Gray,
John A. Andrew, Edward C. Pickering,
Jeffries Wyman, Thomas B. Aldrich,
E. W. Gurney, Edward W. Emerson,
W. M. Hunt, Walbridge A. Field,
Charles F. Adams, Sen., Henry L. Higginson,
Charles W. Eliot, Edward W. Hooper,
Charles C. Perkins, Henry P. Walcott.

CHAPTER XXXII
THE WORCESTER FIRE SOCIETY
I have been for fifty years a member of another club called
the Worcester Fire Society, some of whose members have had
a remarkable relation to important events in the history of
the country, of which the story will be worth recording. The
club was founded in 1793, before the days of fire-engines,
so that if the house of any of the members caught fire, his
associates might come to the rescue with buckets and bags
and bed-keys and other apparatus to put out the fire and save
the property. But it long since became a mere social club.
It is limited to thirty members.
The elder Levi Lincoln, Mr. Jefferson's intimate friend,
confidential correspondent and Attorney-General in his Cabinet,
organizer of the political movement which built up Mr.


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