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`` Great , we 'll do it , '' said Bruce . Then he added , `` perhaps we _ will _ have a real fire department after all . '' `` Old Nanc '' spent the busiest day of her career gathering up the loads of extinguishers , hose and other equipment before she was laid up for alteration , and the Scouts for many days thereafter found that their spare time was well taken up with their work at headquarters . From the hour that the Woodbridge Academy closed until ten o'clock in the evening they toiled like beavers . Bruce , always a capable manager , divided the patrols into working squads and assigned them to the various tasks to be accomplished . Those who were handy with carpentering tools he set to work making a new fire patrol body for the automobile . Those who excelled at the forges he assigned to the task of making brackets and metal clamps with which to fasten the extinguishers onto the motorcycles .