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`` Just so ! Well , one Sunday night one of the boys came back to the store for suthin ' or other , and he sees you -- I mean the feller as has the same name -- emptying out the fire liquid in the exstinkers , and fillin ' em up with kerosene . So , being a cute young nipper , he slips away to the Fire Brigade station and says to the Superintendent , ` Give me ten bob an ' I 'll tell you a secret about Ikey Benjamin and his fire exstinkers . ' The Super gave him the money , and the boy tells the yarn , and about two o'clock in the morning the fire bells starts ringin ' , and Ikey was aroused from a dead sleep with the noos that his store was alight in seventeen places , but that the firemen was puttin ' it out vigorously . How many years did you -- I mean the other cove -- get , Ikey ? '' `` I do n't know , '' replied the hawker , `` but I do know that I must be getting along to Boorala , '' and hurriedly gathering together his effects , he departed in a bad temper . Young gave his mates a solemn wink , and then laughed .