“Yes,” said Rollo. “I think it must have been as terrible as the fire in the city.”
“It was very lonesome too,” said Dorothy; “only us four fighting such a great fire.”
“What should you have done,” asked Rollo, “if your house had taken fire, and got burned down?”
“O, my father would have built us a camp, and we should have lived in that until he could have time to build us another house. But then I don’t know what we should have done for hay all the next winter for our oxen and cows. Father was much more afraid for the barn than for the house.”
“O Dorothy!” said Rollo. “Why, there was all the furniture in the house, and that would have been burned up.”
“No,” replied Dorothy, “there was not much furniture; and what there was we could have got out while the house was burning. The hay was the great thing—the winter’s stock of hay.”
And thus ended Dorothy’s account of the fire in the woods.
QUESTIONS.
To whom did Rollo attempt to describe the fire which he had witnessed in the city? How did he succeed in the description? What was the difficulty? What scene did Dorothy attempt to describe to Rollo? What is a cut-down? In what sort of a place did her father live when the fire in the woods occurred? How did the fire first take? What was its progress the first day? What appearances did it present to Dorothy? How did they hope that it would be extinguished? Describe what took place on the night when the fire reached the clearing.