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Updated: May 24, 2025
He had wrenched one hand free for an instant it went to his pocket and came out of it with something that shone and was hard like a new metal toy. "Now will you lemme go?" But Mrs. Severance tried to grab for the hand with the revolver in it instead, and succeeded only in striking the barrel a little aside. There was a noise that sounded like a cannon-cracker bursting in Mr.
Ruth went over to the lamp and did something to the shade. "Oh," she said carelessly, "haven't I told you? I'm not going back. I've resigned from Van de Vere's. Do all sit down." Ruth might just as well have set off a cannon-cracker. We were startled to say the least. We stood and stared at her. "Do sit down," she repeated. "But, Ruth, why have you done this? Why have you resigned?"
When I saw you come into the yard with your head bandaged at least I thought it was bandaged and your face But what IS the matter with your face?" "My face? Why, nothing." "Nonsense! It's a sight to see. You look the way Erastus Beebe's boy did when the cannon-cracker went off too soon. Primmie, hand me that little lookin'-glass." Primmie snatched the small mirror from the wall. "See, Mr.
From the lines of trenches running parallel to one another comes a constant, spitting, sputtering, popping of rifles, making the woods resound like a Chinese New Year in San Francisco or an old-time Fourth of July. Field guns and hand grenades furnish the 'cannon-cracker' effect.
As I watched with fascinated eyes this scene of activity, as city idlers watch the laborers at work in a cellar excavation, a shell burst on the crowded hillside, perhaps five hundred yards away. There was a crash like the explosion of a giant cannon-cracker; the ground leaped into flame and dust. A few minutes afterward I saw an ambulance go tearing up the road.
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