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NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

The chicken and green peas that the Radcliffe girl ate on the steps of Cambridge's longest ladder wagon after the fire in the Georgian Cafeteria on Wednesday were overshadowed in importance last night. A uniformed fireman knocked at the door of the Hasty Pudding clubhouse and wanted to know when "Fireman, Save My Child" would first he played in Cambridge. He was told. He then confided the suspicion that lay behind such fraternality.

Six leather fire hats were stolen from the ladder wagon while it was stopped in front of the Georgian. The firemen, who fought the blaze above the coffee urns with heads uncovered, came out to find their leather headgear gone. The trail led plausibly enough one block over to the Pudding Clubhouse on Holyoke street. No fire hats could be found there at a late hour last night. The fireman was told that the period of the play was 1850. He went away from there.

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