Uneasy urchins in the distant village were already popping the first firecrackers of the celebration.
Dodging firecrackers that sputtered and banged in the highway about his feet, and cursing soulfully, he gained the town office and grimly sat himself down.
Daghang kug ribintadur nga ipabutu sa Bag-ung Túig, I have lots of firecrackers to explode for New Year’s.
Mitibuagsà ang punduk nga giitsáhag libintadur, The group scattered in all directions when firecrackerswere thrown in their midst.
Thus yelled both boys as they saw that the flames from the brushwood had made their way into a corner of the garage, just where the firecrackers had been placed.
Say, speaking offirecrackers puts me in mind of a story!
On the floor, in a corner, was a box with ordinary firecrackers in it--about two hundred packs in all.
It had caught at a corner of the box containing the smallerfirecrackers and was also at the paper containing the cannon cracker.
Oh, that will be all right," answered Buster, thinking the firecrackerswere to be of ordinary size.
It was the smallfirecrackers in the box that were beginning to go off, the pieces flying through a lower corner of the burning box.
Si pulled the bunches of firecrackers from his pocket, undid them before the children's wondering eyes.
She was wild that she had been outwitted, and particularly by Si, whose fluent speech had returned the moment the{224} firecrackers went oif.
At the same instant there was a series of crashes behind the house; the firecrackers were going off like a volley of rifle-shots.
My appearance in a kimono and straw sandals seemed to furnish them with more excitement than the rope of crackers which hung from the firecrackers pole hard by.
Without being observed, The Imp lit the long stems of two firecrackers and dropped one down the barrel of each weapon.
Why, a pack of firecrackers means dead loads of fun.
Preliminary strings of firecrackers were exploded by impatient boys and the dawn of the holiday was greeted with a sustained uproar of powder.
The popping of a final string of firecrackers died outside.
The small boys were making use of their torches to search for unexploded firecrackers in the grass, or, in fact, for anything else that might be of use to them.
Comings and goings, cries, exclamations, laughter, squibs that had been slow in going off, and firecrackers increased the tumult.
Firecrackers and the booming of little cannon rend the air.
It is noteworthy that while almost every kind of fireworks is manufactured in Europe and the United States, the smallfirecrackers are still imported from China.
Their capabilities in aiding the uproar on the Fourth of July were quickly recognized, and thereafter every ship that made the voyage from Massachusetts Bay to India or China brought back firecrackers with the tea, silks and rice.
It was near the close of the eighteenth century that Chinese firecrackers first came into use in celebrating the American Independence Day.
The Story in Firecrackers and Sky-Rockets[9] The blaze and noise, indispensable to patriotic celebrations among all peoples, was produced a century ago in America by simple agencies.
The same may be turned into firecrackers for a "Fourth of July" festival, a line being drawn to suggest a fuse.
A similar card with the red stitches lying horizontally will picture firecrackers ready to be set off.
Tie six or eight firecrackers into bunches with red, white and blue ribbons, and lay them over the white surface of the luncheon or supper table.
Even in front of the farm-houses the children seemed to havefirecrackers enough to last them for years.
They would have liked it very much if all the little boys and girls had sung songs, but the noise of the firecrackers they thought was most disturbing.
The firecrackers surprised them, for they hadn't seen us, and we were over the fence and upon them before they could run.
The time I am telling about we built a fire on the hill and rang the church bells and fired off firecrackers until we were tired and half starved; then went home to breakfast.
I think a man ought to know better than to kick a boy right where he has had a pack of firecrackers explode in his pocket.
We put the foot-ball in front of the step and lit the tarred rope, and got under the step with the firecrackers and basket, where they go down into the basement.
I thought that the first two were just firecrackers and kept my position and after the third one, I ran down the street here.
I realized something was wrong, but I thought they were dodging somebody throwing things at the car like firecrackers or something, but I did see dust fly up like a firecracker had burst up in the air.
That somebody was throwing firecrackers up there, that the police were running up there to see what was going on, and this was my first impression.
And that shortly afterwards there was another sound, and that he thought that somebody might be throwing firecrackers out of the building.
I looked around to see who was throwing firecrackers or what was going on and I turned my head away from the motorcade and, of course, two more shots.
Despite the wet, a crowd of three or four hundred persons, mostly boys or young men, had collected in front of the Elm House, where they were popping off firecrackers and playing pranks.
Ben had a few matches, with which he had been touching off firecrackers earlier in the day, and ventured up to the back of the wagon.
Suddenly a shot rang out in the lower woods; then two, with a faltering third; then a scattered volley like a bunch of firecrackersgoing off at once.
As soon as she heard my voice, she answered, but was afraid to come down, as there were so many boys withfirecrackers in the street.
And then something made me think that someone was throwing firecrackers from the Texas Book Store, and a possibility it was the second shot.
If those boys see us, it will be all up with us, for if there is one thing boys love, it is to torture animals on the Fourth by tying bunches of firecrackers and tin cans on their tails.
But on looking through the trees under which they had been sleeping, they saw a crowd of boys shooting off firecrackers and putting bunches of them under barrels and tin pans.
By that time the firecrackers were in flame and the result was inevitable.
The next year the worst accident was caused by a boy who threw a bunch of firecrackers at a horse.
How long this conversation would have continued it is difficult to say had it not been for the distressful barking of Colonel Jordon's English terrier, who rushed in with a long string of firecrackers tied to his tail.
Mr. Cornwallis went on in that direction, making his way as rapidly as possible through streets that were already strewn with firecrackers and torpedoes.
Consequently every year before the Independence Day racket began they sought out a quiet spot on the Canadian border--or rather a place where the American citizen freighted with children and firecrackers was never known to come.
And a curious reminder to John Chinaman if it be true that he uses the American Missionaries' tracts in the construction of firecrackers for the American market," said Father Ferrill.
The gift of books and books and books and books instead of firecrackers and cartridges and toy pistols!
I saw him on one occasion throw boxes and boxes of firecrackers and cartridges among a crowd that had collected around, just as kings do money, and then stop and laugh to see the scrabbling after them.
This allusion to the firecrackers would have determined that Curly had come from the South, which alone has a midwinter Fourth of July, possibly because the populace is not content with only one annual smell of gunpowder.
There were some adherents to the traditions of the South in regard to firecrackers at Yuletide, albeit the six-shooter furnished the only firecracker obtainable.
Walking over to one of the stores, he entered, and asked the proprietor if he had any large firecrackers on hand.
The encampment came to an end in a blaze of glory on the Forth of July, with firecrackers and fireworks galore.
Slipping the firecrackers into his coat pocket, Tom sauntered up to old Ricks, while Sam and Dick looked on, sure that something was in the wind.
Watching his chance, Torn threw one of the firecrackers into the blaze and then rejoined his brothers.
However, the best way to prevent accidents with fire is to let fire and lamps and matches and kerosene and sparklers and firecrackers alone.
I am so glad that people are becoming sensible about keeping our nation's birthday, the Fourth of July, and are doing away with the firecrackers that have killed so many thousands of children.
For it was Mary Standish who stood there on the old cottonwood log, shooting firecrackers in this evening of his home-coming.
He heard the popping of individualfirecrackers and the louder bang of one of the "giants" that always made Nawadlook put her fingers in her pretty ears.
General Buddy Pigg, and his soldiers took sticks, and snapped them in two pieces and broke them, until they sounded like real guns, or a lot of firecrackers going off.
Where are you going to get yourfirecrackers and things?
I can't get burned with the kind of firecrackers and torpedoes I'm going to use," answered the little boy guinea pig, and he laughed as he ran out.
Oh, shoot off firecrackersand torpedoes, and make lots of noise, and at night we'll send up Roman candles and skyrockets; and oh!
And then Filbury cast the coat with the firecrackers still exploding, at Spud's head.
Stanley, and the firecrackers were quickly distributed.
He stepped on the coat and as he did so several of the firecrackers went off, one hitting him directly in the chin.
He found Filbury on a step-ladder, fixing a lamp, and he very quietly pinned his firecrackers to the old man's coat tail.
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