You go that end, I'll do this.

Hey! Fire! Fire!" He battered cottage door after cottage door, Dick following his example, with the result that in their alarm the people came hurrying out like bees whose hive has been disturbed by a heavy blow.
There was no need to ask questions.

Every man, while the women began to wail and cry, started for the Tallingtons' farm; but they were brought up by a shout from the squire.
"What are you going to do, men ?" he cried.
"The fire!"-- "help!"-- "water!"-- rose in a confused babble.
"Back, every one of you, and get a bucket!" cried the squire.

"You, Hickathrift, run into the wood-house and bring an axe." "Aw, reight, squire!" cried the wheelwright, and in another minute every man was off at a trot following Dick's father, and all armed with a weapon likely to be of service against the enemy which was rapidly conquering the prosperous little farm at Grimsey.
Two miles form a long distance in a case of emergency, and before the party were half-way there they began to grow breathless, and there was a disposition evinced to drop into a walk.

One or two of those in advance checked their rate, others followed, and for the next two or three hundred yards the rescuers kept to a foot-pace, breathing heavily the while, and speaking in snatches.
"Which is it, Dick--the house or the great stack ?" "I can't see, father," panted the lad; "sometimes it seems one, sometimes both." "Stacks, squire, I think," cried Hickathrift.