Thinking of fires reminds one of the. local superstition that the dwellers in a house in which a fir2 thas occurred. must not be allower to take shelter in another house for a few days as they are sure to carry the fire: bug with them. The apparently callous way. in which the: victims of a conflagration are Jeff out in the street even in the Ditterent weather is due to this idea. One former British reside re in the Port always used to say that there was something in this supezatition, for fire occurred in the flat one of his friends which rondeeed the flat quite unhabitable. "He therefore penned a note, asking his friend to bring his family round at once, and told his old house-boy to get rooms. ready for the guests. "The boy, who had been with him for minny. Years, protested seriously egaingt, such 'a foolish invitation
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