CLANCY TO THE RESCUE



Divide the group into seven smaller groups and assign each group one of the words listed below. Read the story. After each of the words is read pause for the group to make the appropriate response.
CLANCY (feel your muscles, like a strong man)
HORSES (Slap thighs)  
YELL (Indian fashion, with hand over mouth)  
FIRE ENGINE (High-pitched siren sound)  
BELL (Swing arm like a clapper saying, *Clang, clang, clang!')  
HOSE (Shh-sh-sh sound like water from a hose)  
STEAM (Hissing s-s-s-s-s sound)

If you like HORSES___, you would have enjoyed living back in the 1800's when they had old-fashioned STEAM___ type FIRE ENGINES___, pulled by HORSES___. One of the FIRE ENGINES___ was driven by the greatest hero ever, CLANCY___! Yes, Sir! CLANCY___ was a real hero. Every day when there was no fire, he would take the HORSES___ out for exercise, trotting them gently up and down the streets. If there were children along the way, CLANCY___ would always stop and let them pet the HORSES___.

Sometimes the alarms were in the daytime, but sometimes they were at night. When the alarm sounded at night, one man would YELL___ up to the firemen above, and the men would run to the FIRE ENGINE___ where the STEAM___ was up, and away they would go to the fire, clanging the BELL___, with CLANCY___ driving the HORSES___.

One night most al the men were in bed and the others were playing checkers when the alarm sounded. Where was the fire? At the mayor's big two-story house! Quick as a flash they were there. CLANCY___ stopped the HORSES___ and YELLED___, "Keep the STEAM___ up men." They started the fire HOSE___ and began to squirt water on the fire.

CLANCY___ strained to see upstairs where the mayor's wife was trapped. Flames were everywhere! CLANCY___ YELLED___, "You'll have to jump!" The mayor's wife was afraid, so CLANCY___ threw her a rope and she came right down into the middle of the net.

The firemen kept fighting the fire. They got the HOSE___ on it and kept up the STEAM___ in the FIRE ENGINE___. Before long, the fire was out, so they turned off the HOSE___, got back on the FIRE ENGINE___, and went back to the fire house, clanging the BELL___. To CLANCY___ and the other firemen, it was all in a day's work. The sleepy firemen went back upstairs and soon were sound asleep.

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