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Updated: June 11, 2025
We'll take this one first." He drew out a metal flask and when he unstoppered it a pungent smell pervaded the tepee. "Crude petroleum," he explained. "I should imagine the flashpoint is low. I can't say how Clarke got the stuff when the ground's hard frozen, but here it is." "Isn't a low flash-point a disadvantage?" Benson asked. "It must make the oil explosive."
Carved gourds and calabashes, shell- scrapers, nets of olona fibre, a junk of ie-ie baskets, and fish- hooks of every bone and spoon of shell. Musical instruments of the forgotten days ukukes and nose flutes, and kiokios which are likewise played with one unstoppered nostril.
It was only a few of the men who were cognisant of the fact that the Major was lying down exhausted, and wiping his eyes. "Who's that?" he panted. "Who's that you, Maine?" "Yes, sir." "Oh dear! Oh dear! I can't stop it! It's quite hysterical. Give me a water-bottle;" and then, after an application to the unstoppered mouth, "Oh dear! How they did run! I hope poor Dallas has seen it all.
How, in that office, a complete set of "Gibbon" was scarred all along the back as by a flint; how so much black and copying ink came to be mingled with Manders's gore on the table-cloth; why the big gum-bottle, unstoppered, had rolled semicircularly across the floor; and in what manner the white china door-knob grew to be painted with yet more of Manders's young blood, were matters which Beetle did not explain when the rabid King returned to find him standing politely over the reeking hearth-rug.
The men went to their several homes, and all was quiet at the ferry. Ben Wilford made his way to the deck of the steamer, and in the darkness stumbled against the cables, with which the boat was anchored. He was bent on mischief, and he unstoppered the cables, permitting them to run out and sink to the bottom of the lake.
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