The kitchen was then entered, and a start was made to break it up. The firemen are said finally to have attempted to overturn 2 big stove and cause a fire, but the cooks and their assistants intervened with effect. "You have done enough damag:,'"' said the latter, "but you will cause no more. If you burn down this place we will all die, se we may as well all die fighting." Thereupon they (the cooks, etc.) picked up choppers
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