Excerpt from The Smoke-Eaters: The Story of a Fire Crew They were teased and bullied by the Older men. They quarrelled among themselves, disturbing the club quiet of the truck-house leisure; and they were despised by their captain, who demanded Of his new assistant, Where '11 I be if I run into a big blaze with a gang like that? He spoke as if he held Lieutenant Galle gher personally responsible for the condi tion of the crew. Gallegher tried to flatter him with an assurance that the chief sent the green men to him as a good master. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.