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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 FREAK

EXPLOSIVE VAGARIES

THE TURKEY THAT WENT TO BED

BILL BENNETT, DETECTIVE

WINNING THE OX

A DUEL TO THE DEATH

THE BEWITCHED FLINTLOCK

WHEN HE SHIRKED

THE ELEVATION OF WOMANHOOD

DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS LOADED

THE WRONG TAP

“WHENCE ALL BUT HIM HAD FLED”

BREAKING HIS NERVE

THE GRIZZLY CANNON BALL

THE JOKE WAS NOT ON THE CHINAMEN

CHINESE FIREWORKS

BROWN, THE GUNNER

THE HAPPENING OF THE UNEXPECTED

WHEN THE WASH VANISHED

THE FRIGHTENED FISHERMAN

THE COLONEL WAS PROVOKED

WHEN THE DARKIES TURNED PALE

THE DOG THAT WAS A REAL MASCOT

WEARY WILLIE’S DISCOMFITURE

LO, THE POOR INDIAN!