The boy's own book of indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1890)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, Hutchison, George Andrew, 1841-1913 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 449
the powder was scattered. Then we remembered thewet string with which our lecturer used to operate, and placing that in the pathof the current, we slowed the rate, kept the flash in the powder long enough toignite it, and blew down the walls of our house in grand style. Then we worked up to our… … A STORM IN A TEACUP. 445 foremast with our jar, and placed the least pinch of powder in a hole, where itentered the deck. The jar was charged, the cloud hung in the sky, the shipcame sailing, sailing oer the sea; it neared the storm; it passed into it; it camewithin striking distance; there was a…
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