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He drew a cigar from his pocket, almost as big as a cannon fire-cracker and fully as dangerous. "I got this t'day. Looks like a pretty good one. It didn't use to make me sick 'fore I quit the last time." Dick handed him a match and two minutes later the big cigar was burning as freely as its nature would permit.
It may be laying up treasures in heaven; but, by Jove, I had rather see it than hear tell of it." The Refrain. It certainly was the dreariest 24th of December an unhappy boy ever had the misery of witnessing. In a vain endeavor to get up an excitement, I expended my last fire-cracker; but the continuous drizzle drowned out every one.
Seeing that he was growing drowsy from such a big meal, the Queen took pity on him and said he could lean back against the golden throne and take a nap. But first she called the mandarin who was in charge of the Fire-cracker Treasury, where they kept all the finest fire-crackers in the world, and ordered him to bring Marmaduke some.
The explosion which follows is exactly that of one Chinese fire-cracker; and the comically disappointed face which the clown turns to the audience is precisely the same that each individual of that audience is continually turning to another audience surrounding him, when the great and small rockets of his daily life go off with such disproportionate effect.
"Will it make a noise like a fire-cracker?" asked Vi, who always had some sort of question ready. "It won't make a noise unless you drop it, darlin'," said Jerry with a laugh. "Then it'll go 'thump!" "Don't you dare talk that way about my cake!" said Norah. "The idea of sayin' it would make a noise if it fell." "I was only joking" rejoined the former soldier.
We ought to be sorry." "Well I am," said Bunny. "I'm sorry for them, but I'm glad for myself that I'm going to see the fire. Is that all right, Momsie?" "I guess so," answered Mrs. Brown, and then she hurried on to the fire with the children, while Uncle Tad raced ahead with the red fire-cracker extinguishers. Over the fields, from other farmhouses, people came running.
And there, behind the barrel, sure enough, we found an enormous bearded man fast asleep with a well-fed look on his face. We woke him up. "Washamarrer?" he said sleepily. It was Ben Butcher, the able seaman. Polynesia spluttered like an angry fire-cracker. "This is the last straw," said she. "The one man in the world we least wanted. Shiver my timbers, what cheek!"
They hung Tonio's Maestro in the middle, with Tita's donkey-boy on one side and the policeman on the other. Pablo's Judas was a policeman too, and they put him on the other side of the donkey-boy. Then Pablo borrowed a match from a boy and set fire to the first cracker on his policeman. Fizz-fizz-bang! off went the first fire-cracker. Fizz-fizz-bang! off went the second one.
He spent an uncomfortable moment pondering a situation which he viewed with the mingled joy and awe of a child watching the fire in a fuse approach a fire-cracker. "I shall be glad to assist you if I can aid you in any way. You will try to recover the child ?" he suggested. "It's generous of you to offer, but I think you had better keep out of it.
I had heard it all twenty times since we left New York, but mere repetition could not apparently satisfy me. "Then," continued William, "the whole world kinder went off like a fire-cracker, an' I come too, an' ran like " "I know," said I, cutting him short, for I had become wearied of the invariable profanity which lent a lurid ending to his narrative.
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