Show 4 divoll livoll K LIE E 05 ES ar r w 0 5 A undo dicht fi was ap cipf only a great Ip of 0 tile tho kindest men that ayer elivea t he earned his lb ifa useful things like automatic plows thal would plow a whole flold field in the aidt time farmer lay in bed abed ascii aS coi pal UK fish pote that alv hwn hooss hooks and out their t hilr ankli own pull iri PW ariA falp Ilic iii ot and halti again ngali stilt undo uncle lit ht a minutes notice to dorpp all aad aiMAn J invent vent something to give a aoi boy pleasure jimmy Droder lck fele knew this and lie ho reg care of uncle dick carryl carrying lg an aa n 1 it rained anti and to ee fript hoano hla his meals barly 3 for biot ilkic nil all great inventors 4 clo velv could nili aake t ake care of him be tv well Vh hat atwould woud you ou like for the F fourth i f jemm 0 asked dick baut am ek fore that important I 1 ia 1 I 1 aj ir would like most of all to have a amt bag skyrocket sald sa id jimmy IN you sh one said his undo and into his javen tori thol shop which la Is tho the funny name that tha i ho he gave to th little eltta room where ho he invented things 9 s irk f itjin i phone bell rang a goo oo 00 ld deal i day very next morning a elbl the theaty city with tt 4 on jt ahe they yvere were p painted j add r di land ana marker dowde Jow dBr r I 1 in alg lettera tere were also hage rolls foa of thick pasteboard teach each big enough to make the whole bide of a at house hause and there chere were so BO many of a that the horses could hardly pull thorn them I 1 I 1 uncle dick rub rubbed beJ fils his hands and chuckled like anything when ho he saw tho the material r you shall certainly have bavo a sky copet rocket unsaid 1 said he to jemm jimmy Y and tho the lost best of it la Is that the greater part of tho fqy to hundreds of miles abou arou around I 1 hd nv will IM lioyd have ono ond too i jim was very avery curious and ana still more puzzled ailed buthe but he know w h dick did not explain his inventions beforehand so ife ho asked no ques aes ues V tlona but merely kept his eyes open and ald hot of sight of tho the in ventury shop all morn 1 lne i nefora kraat gang or men an rived anti and under uncle dicks orders they began to carry all the material to tho the pasture where they deposited it a huge old dead pine tree that stood smooth and straight reaching into the air fully 80 feet without a tf branch to break bicak it except on the very T pt i top oli boliand and that was soon gone too for dick sent Ken timen men up ui there and t they ha lopped it oft off so tant aba ki then the tree tred stood sleek aa and saibo th ilka like a mirac roa st Is then the sheets of pasteboard were laid on the gro ground und and rolled into a great cylinder j 30 feet long and at least ton to n feet in diameter As soon eoon as a 1 sheet was rolled into shape the men tied it tightly with yards on yards of rope and then another sheet was rolled around the first and more rope tied around that and so on until all tho the pasteboard had be been en used up and that was such a lot that it took the men all day with tho the hardest kind kindol of work tho alfo net nent day they opened the casks of powder and began to load it in and in tiow after hour until the last grain I 1 caspo in good and hard and i jimmys undo uncle dick said Sol Theresa pounds ot of powder in bire Tha ought to make her fly dy but how about tho the stick thought jimmy ile he did not say it knowing s how flow easy it is to spoil nn an inventors ideas by interrupting him blin with alth frivolous conversation lie ho was to learn very soon how about athe the stick for as soon as the mighty y cylinder was all finished undo uncle dick 7 had a derrick rigged and ana up went tho the big thing until it dangled alongside of ft C the dead pine tree near the dizzy top of it then mighty cables were sent cent up and the men lashed the loaded pasteboard cylinder to t the tree until it was completely hidden by ropes now tor for the fuse said uncle dick he set the men to to work untwisting ropes until tile they had more than toot all unraveled uncle dick went up the derrick and put the end of the unraveled rope into the bottom part of the rocket then he poured kerosene all over it agn and grubbed rubbed gunpowder s ent tn tilt IL att afternoon uncle dick sent out invitations b oth both by mall mail and by messenger to places alices as far away as miles baying Jiff jimmy broderick Broder respectfully ln in altes vites you to his bis uncle dicks farm to neo aeo him alm set oft off the biggest skyrocket in tho the world on the evening of the fourth of july undo uncle dick also sent word to the tha papers about it anti and on the ovenin the ho fourth neole than people wore wor 0 at the farm fann wondering at tho the fin nie ameriso se sky skyrocket racket and trembling al over at tho file thought of tho the explosion when en she eho went off and all over the lani land people who could not go to the farm wore were watching wat elfing tile tho heavens leavens and paying very little attention oth or fireworks of tho the united states be causo the papers had told nil all about the and had explained that it could ao b 0 seen hundreds of miles ailles when if 11 went up tip when tile the time came uncle dlce gave jimmy a big piece of lighted puna and then he stood la in front of the tre and said ladles and gentlemen you will notice that this tree Is inclined toward the north my calculations tell me that when the rocket is lit ht it will pull tho the troa tree clear out of tho the ground and go north for at least 1000 miles which will bring it over uninhabited country where it will fall without hurting anybody unless a bear or a moose should get in tile the way now jimmy touch her on oft I 1 jimmy touched tho the end of the fuse and then everybody ran away to a safe distance the fire climbed swiftly and suddenly with it a bang that shook the hills and broke the windows even in towns miles away the giant rocket went off out came the tree roots and all and sailed grandly into the sy sky with a hissing trail of tiro fire behind it the amazed i i I 1 ten thousand people were there spectators watched it for more than half an hour getting smaller and smaller till it disappeared in the northern sky for days after that the paper printed reports from distant places from peo plo who had bad seen a wonderful flery fiery in the night by means of these reports it was possible for uncle dick to pursue the course of his wonderful rocket until he found that it had pono gone far over canada but lie he could not learn where it had fallen and ho he did not learn until recently but about a week dg ago go a hunter who had been in the very far north of canada near hudson bay shooting m musk ask usk oxen visited uncle dick ile he told a lot of interesting hunting adventures and finally said tho the queerest thing that I 1 saw was far up in the barren lands where there are arc no trees one day I 1 saw something odd some distance away and I 1 went there on my snow shoes what do you suppose I 1 found folind A i mighty tree that was queer enough up tit there but queerer still was the fact that this tree did not stand in the ground as other trees do but stood roots up with its crown hurled buried deeply in the soil it was the most marvelous sight I 1 have even seen and I 1 can hardly belleme it yet I 1 would give a good deaf deal to know what caused this freak of nature uncle dick chuckled and winked at jimmy did you overhear ever eve hear rhear of jimmys wonderful skyrocket ho bd asked no never said the hunter you know I 1 have been in the wilderness it ft long time so ancie uncle dick told him after he got through the hunter said 1 I am glad to know this I 1 intended to write a book about it but now I 1 shall bo be able to save myself the trouble |