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Updated: May 29, 2025
The Yankees have opened the attack; we are going to have a battle; we are ordered to strip for the fight. The skirmish line is firing like popping fire-crackers on a Christmas morning. Every now and then the boom of a cannon and the screaming of a shell. Ha, ha, ha! that has the right ring. We will make Sherman's incendiaries tell another tale in a few moments, when "Halt! about face."
"Well, you needn't tell, smarty," said Tuck, with a squeal and a kick. "I'd heard o' kisses, o' course," Tedda went on, "but they hadn't come my way specially. I don't mind tellin' I was that took aback at that man's doin's he might ha' lit fire-crackers on my saddle.
Violet hardly ever did anything without first asking a question about it. "Huh?" "What for we dig a hole?" "To put fire-crackers in," answered Laddie. "And when they shoot off 'Bang! they'll make the sand go up in the air." "Like a sky-rocket?" asked Vi. "Yes, I guess maybe like a sky-rocket," answered Laddie. So down to the sand pile he and his sister went.
The crazy old organ was made to produce the loudest and liveliest of music; the uniformed municipal band awoke the echoes of the venerable but bedizened fabric with its complimentary braying; and urchins were even permitted to scatter fire-crackers upon the floor in honour of the event. It was a real ecclesiastical Saturnalia of a most innocent and joyous description.
"Yes, grandpa, I guess it will," answered Peace in all seriousness, "'cause we'll always be thinking of the rest of that check money which we've saved from dec'rating our room so's we could buy fire-crackers and rockets for next Fourth of July." The days which followed the advent of the orphan sisters in the great house were happy ones. Oh, so happy! How can they be described?
The use of movable types, although devised, it is said, many centuries earlier, did not come into vogue until the seventeenth century. Gunpowder was used as early as 250 A.D., in the making of fire-crackers; but it was certainly as late as the middle of the twelfth century that it was first employed in war.
Young Van Bibber had never spent a Fourth of July in the city, as he had always understood it was given over to armies of small boys on that day, who sat on all the curbstones and set off fire-crackers, and that the thermometer always showed ninety degrees in the shade, and cannon boomed and bells rang from daybreak to midnight.
In middle of feast all suddenly begin great noise outside of hall, fire-crackers and rockets and Tom-Toms then all so still we very much surprised and know not who come to congratulate us. Then most wonderful, most beautiful Band begin to play under window and every body look at Da Hua because well we know it is St.
"So do I!" "And I!" came the chorus of surprised voices as the last door swung open and the beauties of the third chamber burst upon their view. "It makes me think of fire-crackers," Cherry pensively observed. "Nobody but Peace would ever have thought of such a thing," Faith put in. "A regular Fourth of July room," stuttered the President when he had recovered his voice enough to speak.
Tita gave her the cooking-dishes, and Tonio was just going to hand her the jug, when bang-bang-bang! three fire-crackers went off one right after the other almost in his ear! Tonio jumped at least a foot high, and oh the jug! It accidentally tipped over sideways, and poured a puddle of molasses right on top of the baby's head!
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