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expense, and much public property would be saved, as foul 

 chimneys originate most large fires in towns. Every person 

 whose name is on the roll of the poor should be entitled to 

 have Ins chimneys swept, especially that of the kitchen, gra- 

 tuitously, at stated periods ; and also those who are not rated 

 for municipal purposes, on application, might be accorded 

 the same privilege. All sweepers should be made to examine 

 and scrape out the chimney-pots on the top, as well as em- 

 ploy the machines internally from below, for here the caking 

 of the soot and rain often takes place so firmly that no brush 

 can displace it, and the outlet gets so contracted in conse- 

 quence as sometimes not so much as to admit the hand, and 

 thus it becomes the long unsuspected cause of the fireside 

 enemy. 



