gun-crackers

Updated: May 8, 2025

Round the cartridge Andy, at Dave's suggestion, bound a strip of sail canvas that they used for making water-bags to increase the force of the explosion, and round that he pasted layers of stiff brown paper on the plan of the sort of fireworks we called 'gun-crackers'. He let the paper dry in the sun, then he sewed a covering of two thicknesses of canvas over it, and bound the thing from end to end with stout fishing-line.

Henry Lawson - Joe Wilson and His Mates