Fire-works and Crackers.
Fire-works are things that look very pretty when they are properly managed by those who understand them. But children ought to take care how they meddle with gunpowder, lest they should hurt themselves or other people.
Tom Hazard (for example) was always fond of playing with serpents, crackers, &c. At one time he was near doing damage, by his fire-works falling into a cellar; and at another, as you see in the cut, he so much frightened one of his schoolfellows, that he fell down and put his ancle out; for which Tom was severely corrected, and you must own he richly deserved it.