Chicago Fike. —The New York correspondent of the Sydney Morn my Herald ■writes ;—The people of Chicago accept the situation with characteristic heroism. One “true story” about the fire shows the temper with which they again begin the world. A friend of mine, a newspaper correspondent, was wandering among the smoking ruins, when he met an old merchant, whose hospitality he had frequently received. The old man—over sixty-.
had screwed up his hard-featured western face to an expression of philanthropic fortitude, and was actively employed in squirting tobacco juice on the blackened bricks. “ Here’s where my store was,” said he. “ Ah,” said my friend, “ when are you going to build up again?’ “Waal viciously expectorating in a new place “that’s what I’m waiting here for now. Jest as soon as I can spit on a brick without hearing it hiss, I’m goan to work again.”
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2787, 23 January 1872, Page 3
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145Untitled Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2787, 23 January 1872, Page 3
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