fire-spreader

Updated: June 1, 2025

The sacks were too wet to burn; he had to have grass to feed his moving fire-spreader. At length he had only a teamster and himself, and his fire was going out. Transley whipped off his shirt, rolled it into a little heap, set fire to it, and ran along beside the rim, firing the little moving circle of grass inside. It was the teamster, looking back, who saw Transley fall.

Robert J. C. Stead - Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day