BORROWED FIREO NE day Tom Fox was told by his mother to k****e the fire, which had been allowed to grow so dim that only a mouldering bed of embers was left upon the hearth. Hanging from the crane was a large kettle, almost full of water. Now, in addition to his reputation for freckles, Tom was also believed to be the awkwardest boy in the Blue River settlement. Upon the day above referred to, he did all in his power to live up to his reputation, by upsetting the kettle of water upon the fire, thereby extinguishing the last spark of that necessary element in the Fox household
Of course there was not a lucifer match on all Blue River, from its source to its mouth; and as Mr. Fox had taken the tinderbox with him on a hunting expedition, and would not return till night, Limpy received a sou
