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the same together, and the owner's name on the outside. The huckets 

 shall be kept hung in a conspicuous place at the house of each member, 

 with the bag inside one of them, and shall not be used at any time but at 

 a fire ; and should any member lose any of the above utensils at a fire 

 and not be able to find the same after making diligent search and advertis- 

 ing the same, the loss shall be made good by the society at large. 



The society disappeared from public view with the advent of 

 fire engines. Many of the old buckets are preserved in town as 

 interesting relics. 



The Home Dramatic Club, the Thespian Club, and Catholic 

 Dramatic Association, all organized within the past ten years, 

 have given local dramatic entertainments with success. The Cro- 

 quet Club at Hingham Centre, which disbanded a few years 

 since, was for ten or fifteen years a prominent feature in the life 

 at Hingham Centre. This with a Tennis Club and numerous 

 Base Ball clubs of recent and variable terms of existence repre- 

 sent the interest in athletic sports. The Social Club and Owl 

 Club are composed of young men for purely social purposes. 



There have been and are numerous clubs for literary im- 

 provement such as are found in every community, which are 

 so much of a private nature that the present work seems hardly 

 to include them. 



