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Intense as our artillery fire had been, it failed to destroy the enemy's barbed wire and front trenches sufficiently to clear the way, and the Germans were still working their machine-guns when the fuses were lengthened, the fire lifted, and the gas-clouds rolled away.
And if you're right careful to see that the tool-boxes the boys leave are all locked so's no powder can catch, you know and always start lighting against the air, so that if there's gas and it catches the fire'll blow away from you instead of following you up and if you examine the fuses to see they're long enough and the powder is tamped in just right each miner does that before he leaves and lots of firers just give 'em a hasty once-over instead of a real look and then shake your heels good and fast after you do fire "
And what will be the consequences of this levelling uniformity that crushes parental right and fuses the powers of Provinces into a Federal unit? The Prussian ideal is the answer. We all know what that means and where it leads. Its principles are the solvents of what remains of Christianity unconscious to many, it is true in the political life of our country.
On these occasions, he never failed to raise a laugh at the captain's expense, by throwing in one or two words at the end of each anecdote; and this he did in so grave and modest a manner, that without a previous knowledge of him, anyone might have supposed he was serious. The captain renewed his story of the corps of poodles to extract the fuses from the shells.
The small shot rattled against her side. It was a close call. Two more shots followed in quick succession, both shrapnel. One burst close under the starboard quarter, filling the engine room with the smoke of the explosion of the shell, and the other, like the first, passed over and exploded just beyond. The Spanish gunners had the range and their time fuses were accurately set.
"I'll do better than that," said the captain. "I'll set you ashore on the coast of Florida three weeks from today." "Good!" said Jack. "Now," said the captain, "if you care to accompany me on deck, you shall see the last of the ship that carried you here." The lads followed the captain on deck. The latter summoned his first officer. "Fuses all set?" he asked. "Yes, sir.
Now, they were not only to make the steel, but they were to forge the ingots into rough casts; these casts were then to be carried to the new munition works, there to be machined, drilled, polished, provided with fuses, which "Spencer's" were also to make, and shipped abroad. The question of speeding production had been faced and met.
Some of the larger concretions consist of a mere spherical shell, filled with slightly consolidated ashes. The concretions contain a small proportion of carbonate of lime: a fragment placed under the blowpipe decrepitates, then whitens and fuses into a blebby enamel, but does not become caustic.
They were employed as gunners; and not only did they serve their guns with a quickness and precision which astonished their assailants, but they stood till some of them were actually bayonneted with fuses in their hands; nor was it till their leader was wounded and taken, and they saw themselves deserted on all sides by the soldiers, that they quitted the field."
A little later, with the precious fuses in his pocket, he was fighting his way through the snow back to Connie, lying unconscious in the white blankets which no longer chilled her. The waiting seemed endlessly weary.
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