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Harper told about Joe scaring her with a firecracker, and you told about Peter and the Painkiller " "Just as true as I live!" "And then there was a whole lot of talk 'bout dragging the river for us, and 'bout having the funeral Sunday, and then you and old Miss Harper hugged and cried, and she went." "It happened just so! It happened just so, as sure as I'm a-sitting in these very tracks.
Best of all, perhaps, Colin gained from him the feeling that science and scholarship were two windows whereby one might see how much good there is in the world. "Enthusiasm," Mr. Collier said, "is one of the best forces I know. A boy without enthusiasm is like a firecracker without a fuse. The powder may be there all right, but it will never have a chance to make itself heard."
"How long have you been here, Cousin Jack?" asked King. "Well, I was waking, so I called early; I don't know at what hour, but I've been long enough alone, so I'm glad you two young patriots came down to help me celebrate. Polly want a firecracker?" He held out a pack of small ones to Marjorie, but she declined them. "No, thank you; give those to King. I'd rather have torpedoes."
Babies, not able to walk, are busy working beside their mothers stripping the tobacco leaf from the stems. If the cigar and opium factories shocked us, the firecracker factory appalled us. A crowd of youngsters huddled in a tiny, filthy room filled with powder, were working with wonderful dexterity, ceaselessly putting fuses in firecrackers.
"It's too bad you can't seem able to find it," said the second cousin to Grandfather Prickly Porcupine, "but perhaps you will have good luck to-day. Only you want to be very careful." "Why?" asked the old gentleman rabbit. "Well, because you know it will soon be the Fourth of July, and some boys may tie a firecracker or a skyrocket to your tail," said the porcupine. "Ha!
"An explosion," said Soames grimly, "is a bursting-out of a suddenly present mass of gas. An implosion is a bursting-in of a suddenly present vacuum. Set off a firecracker and you have an explosion. Break an electric bulb and you have an implosion. That pattern behind us is an implosion-pattern." "But how could such a thing be?" "If we knew," said Soames wrily, "maybe we'd be running away.
"Wonder if they'll try that game on the other auto," said Fred, as he arose to look back. He saw the street rough throw a lighted firecracker at the other machine. It landed on the floor of the tonneau, but like a flash Tom was after it. The fun-loving Rover held it up, took aim, and sent it straight at the fellow who had first launched it.
"What was that exploded?" "A big firecracker, sir," answered Peleg Snuggers. "And who exploded it?" Before the utility man could answer there came a cry from the parade ground: "Don't peach, Peleg, don't peach!" "Silence, boys!" burst from Josiah Crabtree wrathfully. "Such a disturbance is against the rules of this institution." "We didn't fire the cracker," piped up a tall, slim boy.
On these imitation battle-fields, any one of which is larger than the field of Waterloo, the men are instructed in the gentle art of bombing, first with "dubs," which do not explode at all, then with toy-grenades which go off harmlessly with a noise like a small firecracker, and finally, when they have become sufficiently expert, with the real Mills bomb, which scatters destruction in a burst of noise and flame.
The ship suddenly opened back, opened like the peel of a banana, till a little nub remained at the further end, and the metal flaps dropped back across and behind it dejectedly. A second ship was struck, and it was struck on one side, so that it was shattered like a spent firecracker. Then the Miran fleet vanished in speed. Kendall followed them.
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