fuse-carrier

Updated: June 4, 2025

Mechanically, and as one man, they rushed to the rear platform. The mock cannon stood where it had been thrust; but in the camp street a handful of men were wrestling madly with the pipe fuse-carrier, breaking it, wrenching it in pieces, and stamping futilely upon the snake-like thing hissing and spitting under their feet. "Look!" sobbed Adair. "They know they've discovered that box-car!

Francis Lynde - Empire Builders