‘Say, “Heaven help you to put the fire out,”’ whispered one of the firemen; and Johnny said so, and off he went, the old way, crying—

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‘Heaven help you to put the fire out!’

Now he passed a blacksmith’s forge, and that blacksmith was as cross as two sticks, for he had been blowing the bellows for three hours, and could not make the fire burn.

Well, just when a little tiny blue flame burst forth, as little as a pussycat’s tongue, what did the blacksmith hear but—

‘Heaven put the fire out!’

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