Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 209
the hand by the flying sparkssometimes bring on a strange illness, called thelock-jaw, which is apt to prove fatal. There are several other pistols that can be usedin this way. Some of them are pictured here, andeach one is warranted to hurt the boy who firesit. Every one else will be perfectly… … These things may not of themselves be very harm-ful, but the wounds they make are the same asthose made by ~^^ ^jr-^ gunpowder, and sureto cause great n^ //--^~/ pain, and perhapssickness anddeath. ■
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