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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Is not that rather a sneaking way of killing one's enemies?" asked my mother. Young Firebrand laughed, and admitted that it was, but pleaded that everything was fair in love and war. In actual warfare the circuit-closers are placed just over the mines which they are designed to explode, but for safety on this occasion they were placed at a safe distance from their respective mines.
The black specks are buoys, called circuit-closers, because they contain a delicate contrivance a compound of mechanism and galvanism which, when the buoys are bumped, close the electric circuit and cause the mine to explode. Thus when a ship-of-war sails against one of these circuit-closers, she is immediately blown up."
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