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Show ..From O. A. Smith, Gulf port, Florida: I remember back in tha days of old when the 4th of July was the day when our dad's were just big little boys but not too big to play. From the place we called home we never travelled far, that waa before the days of Ford's Tin lizzie of the family car. The sale of firecrackers was not outlawed anywhere. You could shoot them where and whenever you pleased and no one seemed to care. Just about 20 years ago I they were fighting the Battle of Bull Run. But now the noise of cannonading meant folks were having fun. And though you may believe it it or not here is a fact unique; in handling grenades and firecrackers, firecrac-kers, you use the same technique. First you light the fuse then get ready, aim and throw. Sometimes big fellers would light a whole pack and explode I them all at one time. But we kids could not do that since a pack cost a nickel or a dime. After all the noise had died down, the other kids and me would hunt for those unexploded there among the debris. And when we would find one, this may give you a laugh, we would take that firecracker and break the thing in half. And what did we do with those two halves we thought was a wonderful sight? We would place them opposite each other for a cat and dog fight. The dog was the end with the fuse in it and the cat the other end. You light the fuse end which is the dog, then place It in front of the cat; you have started a battle, for here is what happens after that: The fuse lights the powder, the dog sputters, the cat receives the fire which sets the powder off In the cat and there's a blaze like a shorted wire. (Send contributions to this eoluma to The Old Timer, Community Press Service, Box 3, Frankfort, Kentucky.) |