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A GREAT FIRE AT NIGHT.
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heavy volumes. Soldiers yet stood guard in the plashy
discoloured snow, amid a wild disorder of carts, engines,
heaps of furniture, charred beams, and trailing pipes, which
intersected the streets and walls. But all danger was past.
At three o’clock in the morning we wended our way,
with exhausted frames, to Mrs. Amsel’s, wondering where
all the unlucky fugitives of the night had found shelter.
The next day nothing was talked of but the fire. Seven-
and-twenty years ago, it is said, this brewery was burnt
down, the brewer having in both cases made himself unpo-
pular, by raising the price of beer. People blessed their stars
that half Munich was not consumed,—that the fire did not
break out in the dead of night,—that the weather was calm,
—and that there was a thick covering of snow. It is said,
also, that Prince Luitpold aided in extinguishing the fire.
167
heavy volumes. Soldiers yet stood guard in the plashy
discoloured snow, amid a wild disorder of carts, engines,
heaps of furniture, charred beams, and trailing pipes, which
intersected the streets and walls. But all danger was past.
At three o’clock in the morning we wended our way,
with exhausted frames, to Mrs. Amsel’s, wondering where
all the unlucky fugitives of the night had found shelter.
The next day nothing was talked of but the fire. Seven-
and-twenty years ago, it is said, this brewery was burnt
down, the brewer having in both cases made himself unpo-
pular, by raising the price of beer. People blessed their stars
that half Munich was not consumed,—that the fire did not
break out in the dead of night,—that the weather was calm,
—and that there was a thick covering of snow. It is said,
also, that Prince Luitpold aided in extinguishing the fire.