1874 The American Bar-Tender or The Art and Mystery of Mixing Drinks by E A Simmons

i-ieeman's toasts.

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fibemen^s toasts.

^ Tho sentinels of our homes; maythey ever find

^Ts'^ntry-bo:'in our bcarte. ^flimes of their affections.

„ _Mny the ladies nerer cast cold water on the

oeta chantin wild enraptured lays, valor, or the soldier's praise, claims my present toast;

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Firemen, our city's boast T'

It is :

«,an never be in want of hose, and may ho never

t be water-proof, his flesh be fire-proof, his bones

May hi3 ^^jyre-proof, and his spirits hefourth proof.

t {the Fireman—Thefirst to be moved bytho sound ijgua (beUes). and the last to be deaf to their call.

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The

they toast each other's names.

In their friend, their only foe—the flames. never be toasted save by the glass of his friends, nove* except with ardor for the public safety. « Mav their names be recorded in letters of gold the bright roll of immortality, eaking-trumpets arouse the sleeping, in the hour May ^ tbe trump of the archangel shall awake tho of danger,»= dead. ..t ginrs on parade, and rainbows of hope in the danger. or,'H four A's—Awake, Away, Arrest, Assuage. TheFiremen B lom