While a pile a kindling was being! dried by the fireplace Chiang So-shu, housewife, eft her four young ones and went next door to gossip. When the kindling got, real hot it began to burn, the wooden partitions were ignited, and the three boys and Mttle glel—the oldest was but 12 years old—wore frightened out their wits, The biggest youngster crouched down in a corner at the front of the house, was overcome by smoke, but was revived by firemen after they had extinguished the fire. His brothers and sister were too frightened to move, lay in their beds: and pulled the covers over their! heads. Thelp blackened corpses showed what a terrible death they had met.
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