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Updated: May 18, 2025
Pigg, in the matter of jumping into the pond with the big firecracker, which the bad fox had lighted, the old gentleman guinea pig said: "I wish, Percival, you would spend a few days with us. I'm afraid that ugly tramp fox will come back." "Of course I will," agreed the dog.
It sounded like firing a firecracker away down cellar in a barrel, and Pa looked scared.
If thrown in the open they go off on the surface much like a gigantic firecracker. They are easy to dodge by daylight, when you can see them coming, but thrown at night as part of a general bombardment, including shrapnel and heavy explosive shells, or exploding directly in the trench, they must be decidedly unpleasant.
She lights the tip end of the tail of a firecracker, and throws it, and you forget all about it, and when her firecracker has ceased to interest you, and you don't know where it is, it goes off in your coat collar, or down the waistband of your pants. A Filipino shoots the way a trained monkey touches off a syphon of seltzer water.
Every soldier stiffened where he stood and caught his gun tightly, and once more the militia colonel looked yearningly at the Gatling-gun as helpless as a firecracker in the midst of the crowd, and then imploringly to the adjutant-general, who once again smiled and shook his head.
He would say: "'Say, do you remember the time when we locked the proctor up in old man Latoque's cellar? "And he laughed and banged the table with his fist, and then he continued: "'Yes-yes-yes-and do you remember the face of the geography teacher, M. Marin, the day we set off a firecracker in the globe, just as he was haranguing about the principal volcanoes of the earth?
"It did wake some folks up," answered Roger, for quite a few boys and men had come up to find out what the flames and noise meant. "It was certainly some firecracker," was Luke's comment. "Say, speaking of firecrackers puts me in mind of a story!" burst out Shadow. "Wow! A story this time of night!" murmured Buster. "I'm going to bed." "This is a short one," pleaded the would-be story-teller.
"How?" asked Sam. "Never mind. Just wait and see." In a minute more they swept up to the gateway leading to the parade ground. Some of the pupils had seen the carriage coming, and they ran down to learn if any old friends had arrived. "Hullo!" yelled several. "Hullo yourself!" came in return, and then Tom drew out the firecracker still in his pocket and lit it on the sly.
I knew that since the weather had moderated a spy might have come in the night and discovered that I was alone and how defenseless the town was. I had heard of fuse, but it happened that I had never seen any in my life. I remember I thought it must be white and soft like the string of a firecracker. So I began to rummage through all the drawers and boxes for fuse.
George Jones had the glory of perpetrating the first joke on him; he gave him a cigar with a firecracker in it and winked to the crowd to come; the thing exploded presently and swept away the bulk of Nicodemus's eyebrows and eyelashes. He simply said: "I consider them kind of seeg'yars dangersome," and seemed to suspect nothing.
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