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Updated: May 27, 2025
"We haven't any rockets; but, oh, Molly! we have some firecrackers. They've been here ever since Fourth of July; those big cannon crackers, you know! Do you suppose we could fire off some of those, and Carter would hear them?" "The very thing! But how can we fire them in this awful rain? It would put them right out." "We MUST do it! It's our only chance!"
The political chief of the town invites him to a twelve-o'clock breakfast to meet the notabilities of the place. A salvo of firecrackers at noon announces that the chief is prepared to welcome his friends, and the invited guests, male and female, hasten to the prefecture.
He murmured approvingly, she caught words of commendation and unspeakable reassurance. She hurried away blindly, sick to the inmost depths of her being. The morning, when she had tied her gay bonnet ribbons and started out with the scarlet merino shawl on her arm, seemed to belong to a long, long time ago, to a girl.... The popping of a final string of firecrackers died outside.
"Well, I'm going off to find Sammie and Billie and Johnnie and Jimmie and Peetie and Jackie Bow Wow, and Bully and Bawly Frog, and we'll have a fine time on the Fourth." "Where are you going to get your firecrackers and things?" asked Brighteyes. "You'll see," answered Buddy, as he ran off. Well, Fourth of July came at last, just as it always does, and early in the morning Buddy Pigg awoke.
His pleadings, however, were disregarded, and after the meeting was over, he had to return to his little island, where for eight weeks he was compelled to sit listening to the rattling guns, booming cannons and bursting firecrackers, for the Boxers seemed to hope to exterminate the foreigners by noise.
They might as well, said Cocoanut, be getting ready, anyhow, and so he began tying strings of firecrackers together, adjusting cannon crackers at intervals between the smaller ones, and adding Billy's string of crackers to his own. When completed there were just thirty-seven and one-half feet of firecrackers of variegated quality.
I never want to see any of it," answered Ricks, with a decided shake of his head. "If it goes off it's apt to blow everything to splinters," went on Dick. "That's so I don't want any of it," and the old man began to gather up more waste paper for his fire. Watching his chance, Torn threw one of the firecrackers into the blaze and then rejoined his brothers.
This we had been doing for several hours, with frequent toasts, speeches, firecrackers and an occasional rocket aimed directly at the eye of the tropical sun. Captain Triplett, being a stickler for marine etiquette, had conditioned that there should be no liquor consumed except when the sun was over the yard-arm.
It's something that can't be left in there," and so speaking Roger slid open a door and hurried inside the garage. Phil came directly behind him. On the floor, in a corner, was a box with ordinary firecrackers in it about two hundred packs in all. On top of this was a package in paper containing the big cannon cracker. "Lookout!" "It's on fire!"
He says there was a man named Adams who was a president once, and he said everybody ought to make all the noise they could; get out and fire guns, and blow horns, and beat on pans and yell like everything, and build bonfires and fire off firecrackers." "Did he?" said the boy. "And did he say anything about getting out the night before?"
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