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 501
nt up with a very smalltoy balloon, and might be detached by means already described, so as to explodewhilst falling. The exact modus operandi would be as follows :—Take a blue-light,and with a bradawl make a few transverse holes just above the sealing-wax closure;then smear the closed and… … Bickford fuse and quickmatch would easily enable you to achieve the rest, supposingyou to have given proper attention to preceding instructions. CHAPTER LX.—MODEL BALLOONS AND ALL ABOUT THEM.
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