Hot Fire
Ranger Bill · May 22, 1957 · 29 min · 3,653 words
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Danger Bill, warrior of the woodland, struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, fighting the many enemies of nature. This is the job of the guardian of the forest, Ranger Bill. Pouring rain, freezing cold, blistering heat, snow, floods, bears, rattlesnakes, mountain lions.
Yes, all this in exchange for the satisfaction and pride of a job well done. You know, I often wonder why folks can't learn by other people's experience. But I guess they never will. However, I think there's a bigger human failing, which probably does more damage in the long run, and it's the deadly practice of procrastination, putting things off and never getting around
to them. Even when it's too late to do anything about it, those who procrastinate it are sorry. Well let's move along today and find out more about the deadly art of procrastination in the story, Hot Fire.
Boy, we should have been getting a good amount of rain this spring. Right, and we need it too. Some places are not too far from us, they have an anorane like this for five years.
Ah, I know it's been a long time. We've had some good drizzling rains too. Yeah, those are the kind that really comes, honey. The slow, easy kind of rain. Soaks weighed out into the ground, and there's hardly any runoff.
This is most beautiful spring I've seen in many years. Everything brilliant green. I remember several years ago, and everything was a brilliant brown in the spring. Didn't have enough snow during the winter put in your ear and the spring was even drier. Yes sir, if we could have had some of this rain then, would have saved a lot of timber. Now that year we have terrible forest fire
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