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Indeed, to be able to see the thing smartly was an entry into community with the elect of the district; and when the roaring ceased and the thing was examined, astonishment at the cleverness of it, and the wonderful shallowness of the seeming deep hole, and the unexhausted bang it had to go off like a patent cracker, fetched it out for telling over again; and up went the roar, and up it went at home and in stable-yards, and at the net puffing of churchwardens on a summer's bench, or in a cricket-booth after a feast, or round the old inn's taproom fine.
"What wages do you pay, in case you needed anyone, and I applied for the job?" "Four dollars and find yourself, and no snacking in the store out of the cracker barrel and cheese bin," came the quick response. "It strikes me that's pretty small pay for the long hours here, and the heavy work you require," remarked Dick. "Kin get lots of help at that price.
"How much money have you got your own money, I mean?" inquired Mr. Breed, guilelessly, his eyes centered carefully on the lighted tip of his cigar. "Say you you What do you mean by that?" rasped Dodd, putting the cracker of a good round oath on the question. "I meant that I wanted to bet something and I wouldn't want you to go out and borrow money or or anything else."
Robert took a cracker, Cyril and Anthea had Roman candles; but Jane's fat paw closed on the gem of the whole collection, the Jack-in-the-box that had cost two shillings, and one at least of the party I will not say which, because it was sorry afterwards declared that Jane had done it on purpose. Nobody was pleased.
It appears that when acting in a wholly inexcusable fashion, and influenced, I confess it, by motives of revenge I made off with your club-house, I neglected to ascertain if it were well stocked with provisions, a fatal error; for when we endeavored to get supper we discovered that the larder contained but half a bottle of farcie olives, two salted almonds, and a soda cracker not a luxurious feast for sixty-nine pirates and a hundred and eighty-three women to sit down to."
He was a little over six feet in height, and moderately broad in the shoulder; he did not appear to be stout, but, on the other hand, he was certainly not thin; his small head was supported by a strong and sinewy neck; his broad muscular hands appeared to possess a peculiar skill in breaking walnuts without the assistance of the ordinary cracker, and, seeing him in profile, one could not help remarking the extraordinary breadth of his sleeves, and the unusual thickness of his chest.
Cannon rent the morning silence, and everywhere there were crackers bursting. Even the milkmen fired them as they went on their early way. Sky-High danced about. "You have Cracker Day! It is all same as China!" he said. Some of the Milton boys who had many bunches of fire-crackers, good-naturedly thought they would startle little Washee-washee-wang at his work.
If a sufficient amount is left after a meal, a good plan is to utilize it in croquettes. To make such croquettes, chop the left-over food fine and hold it together with a thick white sauce or with raw eggs. Then form it into croquettes of the desired shape, roll these in bread or cracker crumbs, and brown them in butter.
The "cracker" always gave hopes to one that if he had the advantage of common schools, and could be made to understand that laziness was dishonorable, he might develop into something. There was little foundation for such hope in the average low South Carolinian. His mind was a shaking quagmire, which did not admit of the erection of any superstructure of education upon it.
The crowd shuffled over to a more open spot, on the mesa. Shoop and High Chin mounted their horses. A tin cracker box was placed on a flat rock out in the open. The men were to reload and shoot at top speed as they rode past the box.
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