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can gallop. A smoldering camp fire may be blown into flame 

 by the wind and give us another story like that of the Hinck- 

 ley fire, which licked up several towns and 500 people in them, 

 left 2000 people homeless, and destroyed $25,000,000 worth 



FIG. 81. Forest fire in Washington 

 Photograph by J. L. Bridge 



of buildings and timber. Let public and private forest-fire 

 service organize lookouts and fire wardens and volunteers, at 

 great expense ; all these measures will not be effective until 

 everybody is educated to be intelligent and careful about the 

 little sparks that start the big fires. 



