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Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870

A TRIUMPH OF HOUSEKEEPING.

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All honor to the gentlewoman in Aroostook, Maine, who put out a fire the other day, first by pouring water on it, then all her milk and cream, and finally all the pickle in her meat-barrels. 'Twas only applying wholesale an old woman's cure for burns; but the point of the matter was that she pickled a fire, and preserved her life.

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