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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22.,
Mystic
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se, regardless of what would happen to them afterwards—and it always did happen—on their return. I think it was the lunch after the return of the tub (as they termed it) that appealed to them, more than the help they could afford. This consisted principally in yelling. They had fun in seeing which of the tubs could wash over the others. Having two brothers and a cousin in that Center Grammar school, I heard a great deal of tub talk. There were three engines, if I remember rightly, General Jackson, Governor Brooks, and Washington. A favorite query among the boys was, Who do you blow for? This question, asked of a well-known individual, the answer was always, The Orthodox Church, which was to the point, as he pumped for the organ in that church. Reading of these engines reminded me that there had been a fourth (although not generally known), Mystic No. 4, in the early '50s. It was short-lived. At that time there was a boys' engine in Malden, and some of the West Medford boys