York Fire Police

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“New York state sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. And they got no windows in the workhouse. You know, in the old days they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.”
—John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)

“Billy, in one of his nice new sashes,
Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes;”
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