Dynamite Stories, and Some Interesting Facts About Explosives
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AND
SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT EXPLOSIVES
BY HUDSON MAXIM
Author of “Defenseless America,” “The Science of Poetry and the Philosophy of Language,” etc.
NEW YORK HEARST’S INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY CO.
Copyright, 1916, by HUDSON MAXIM
All rights reserved, including that of translation into the foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
Printed in the U. S. A.
To the actors in the comedies and tragedies of real life presented in these stories, without whose efforts and sacrifices the stories could not have been so interesting and true, this volume is with grateful acknowledgments most respectfully dedicated. As the parts played by the actors were not rehearsed, the performances have required a little retouching in the interest of the reader, the author having subordinated history to story rather than story to history.
Hudson Maxim.
Hudson Maxim
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DYNAMITE STORIES
DEDICATION
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 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!
