Dynamite Stories, and Some Interesting Facts About Explosives. Hudson Maxim

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066217686

Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION

       THE FORGOTTEN BIT OF FULMINATE

       HELL SWAZEY BREAKS UP THE DANCE

       THE POET’S UPLIFT

       HOW BENDER LOWERED THE PRICE OF DYNAMITE

       FOOLHARDY KRUGER

       DISCHARGING PAT

       LINES TO A LADY

       HE SEPARATED

       THE WELL-DIGGER’S CASUALTIES

       THE RIVAL EDITORS

       THE PASSING OF “JEOPARDY”

       THE INVOLUNTARY ATTACK

       HOIST WITH HIS OWN PETARD

       THE FORGOTTEN PRECAUTION

       THE FATAL HAT

       A DROP TOO MUCH

       A CLOSE CALL

       A PICKANINNY’S TREASURE TROVE

       NOT TO BE BUNCOED

       SIR FREDERICK’S BONFIRE

       THE IRREVERENT NATIVE

       AT FOLLY’S MERCY

       THE WATCHMAN’S DOUBLE VISION

       THE ZEALOUS FOOL

       SOME LIVELY COTTON WASTE

       SAVING TIME

       THE BROKEN SCALE

       THE SINGULAR GOOD FORTUNE OF A GENTLE ENGLISHMAN

       THE MATCH AT THE PEEP-HOLE

       THE FLASK OF LIQUOR

       IMPERTINENCE PUNISHED

       CURIOSITY’S UPLIFT

       PROUD EVEN UNTO DEATH

       THE DOG THAT ATE DYNAMITE

       INSECURE SECURITY

       THE LOADED CHINAMAN

       LIVING BOMBS

       SHIPS THAT PASSED IN THE NIGHT

       A WILD PROJECTILE

       THE BOMB AND THE TRAIN

       THE MISSING VESSEL

       THE DRUNKEN MESSENGER

       NITROGLYCERIN BY AUTOMOBILE

       THE JETS OF BLUE

       THE WISDOM OF RETREAT

       THE RACE WITH DEATH

       THE INDOMITABLE POET

       SCATTERED

       A LIVELY DEAD ONE

       INCIDENTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MOTORITE

       THE MULE GUN

       HOW GUSSIE GOT LOADED

       DYNAMITE’S