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Updated: June 3, 2025
Heavy rain clouds obscured the stars and not a traveler ventured along the wind-swept roads. From the attic were loaded into the wagon crowbars, sledge hammers, iron pikes and oil-soaked faggots. The crowbars and sledge hammers might be used on the gates or doors. There could be no doubt about the use to which the leader intended to put the pikes and torches.
She presided over one of the red pots borrowed from the Salvation Army that were slung from their tripods at each intersecting corner of the streets radiating from Exchange Place, and for a half mile on all sides of the square. Under each pot was a bundle of resinous and oil-soaked wood that would burn brightly for an hour. At the booth in Exchange Place fuel for a much larger bonfire was laid.
"Mother, I begin to think an island is the only place for a family such as ours. There's one thing I don't suppose occurred to you, Bobby." "What, Daddy?" asked Bobby seriously. "That Twaddles might have taken off his oil-soaked suit," replied Father Blossom, going to the rescue of the lonely and hungry little fellow. Meg and Bobby and Dot looked at each other.
He spoke as calmly as though danger was distant, and a moment later the little box was roaring with its oil-soaked kindlings. "Will this stove burn green willow tops?" cried Willard. "Sure! She's good stove. She'll burn hicicles eef you get 'im start one times. See 'im get red?"
Three or four wind-proof matches Teall struck on a box and tossed into the oil-soaked pile of combustibles. In a moment the increasing heat of the blaze drove him back several yards. Higher and higher mounted the red and yellow flames. Hundreds stood about, their faces fully illumined by the big glow. "It's going to be a great one," Ted called to Dick, as the latter came toward him.
After witnessing the stoical heroism of my slave I could not but insist on his branding me and was exalted to the point of nerve-tension at which I bit in my half-uttered scream as the heat seared my flesh. Agathemer dressed each brand with an oil-soaked rag and we composed ourselves to hide until dark.
Under cover of darkness, one of the slinking Indians had crept up and ignited a pile of oil-soaked rags against the logs of the building. The flames rose high, licking hungrily upward. "Get water!" some one shouted. A bucketful or two from their supply tossed accurately through a loophole by Kid Wolf extinguished the blaze before it could rise higher.
Fire!" was heard outside our house. The very thought of fire is enough to raise terror and consternation throughout this oil-soaked district. We hurry out and find the whole neighbourhood illuminated with a weird, whitish light, as bright as day. The derricks stand out like ghosts against the light background. We make for the place and feel the heat increasing.
Smaltz whispered he could barely speak "I'm tellin' the truth it was an accident. He jumped me I threw him off and he fell in the sluice-box backward I tried to save him I did that's straight." Smaltz kept rolling his head back and forth in an oil-soaked spot where a grease cup leaked. Bruce's knee was grinding into his ribs and chest and his fingers were tightening on his throat.
"Another piece of tinder and another piece of moss were placed as they had been before; another spark was struck, another blaze was blown, and when this came, the Dean was holding in it his fibres of oil-soaked moss, and we soon had a lighted torch. 'Hurrah, hurrah! we might well shout now, for the thing was done. 'Praised be Heaven! we have got a fire at last!
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