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Updated: May 18, 2025
Thaddeus muttered two syllables to himself, the latter of which sounded like M'dodd, but exactly what it was he said I can only guess. Then he added: "They won't go there. I can't get a gas-pipe up through those chimneys. It's as much as we can do to get the smoke up, much less a gas-pipe. Even if we got the gas-pipe through, it wouldn't do. A putty-blower would choke up the flues."
Then the poor fellow will have a good chance to get off with a whole skin!" "Cut out that line of talk," ordered Hazelton, his face growing red. "Back in the old home days, Tom, you've seen me do some great shooting." "With the putty-blower -yes," Tom admitted, with a chuckle. "Say, wasn't Old Dut Jones, of the Central Grammar, rough on boys who used putty-blowers in the schoolroom?"
The bootblack drew a tin putty-blower from his pocket, took unerring aim, and nailed in a single shot the minute hand to the dial. Going on with his blacking, yet stopping ever and anon to glance over the general's plan of campaign, spread on the table before him, he was at last interrupted by the entrance of an officer. "Everything is ready for the attack, general. It is now eight o'clock"
I'd like to have one like it, if it's as dangerous as it looks." "When I have any trouble with a man," says he, "I don't want to go pecking at him with a putty-blower, just irritating him, and giving him a little skin complaint here and there; I want something that'll touch his conscience." He had it, for a broadside from that battery would scatter an elephant over a township.
At last the wall had been penetrated, and he quickly removed every trace from the other side that would have attracted attention to a little hole in an obscure corner of the flowered wall-paper. Next, he drew out what looked like a long putty-blower, perhaps a foot long and three-eighths of an inch in diameter. "What's that?" I asked, as he rose after carefully inserting it.
At last he seemed to be satisfied with the opening he had made. From the package in his breast pocket he drew a long brass tube which looked as if it might be a putty-blower. Slowly he inserted it into the hole he had bored. "What is it?" I asked, unable to restrain my curiosity longer.
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