The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 80
was gathered a small group of menand boys watching such a display of firecrackers as would have attracted a whole City Hall Parkfull of people at home. Yet their interest wasapparently much like their numbers —very small.They just gazed at the exploding end of the redstring of noise without any… … FIG. 2. ROLLING A CRACKER. My appearance in a kimono and straw sandalsseemed to furnish them with more excitementthan the rope of crackers which hung from thefirecracker pole hard by. Such a din! Can youimagine a string of firecrackers, large and smallwoven together, of over 100,000? But I am…
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