TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Introduction[1]
The Forgotten Bit of Fulminate[25]
Hell Swazey Breaks up the Dance[29]
The Poet’s Uplift[34]
How Bender Lowered the Price of Dynamite[39]
Foolhardy Kruger[42]
Discharging Pat[45]
Lines to a Lady[47]
He Separated[50]
The Well-Digger’s Casualties[53]
The Rival Editors[55]
The Passing of “Jeopardy”[58]
The Involuntary Attack[59]
Hoist with His Own Petard[62]
The Forgotten Precaution[64]
The Fatal Hat[67]
A Drop too Much[68]
A Close Call[70]
A Pickaninny’s Treasure Trove[72]
Not to Be Buncoed[73]
Sir Frederick’s Bonfire[76]
The Irreverent Native[79]
At Folly’s Mercy[80]
The Watchman’s Double Vision[82]
The Zealous Fool[84]
Some Lively Cotton Waste[87]
Saving Time[88]
The Broken Scale[90]
The Singular Good Fortune of a Gentle Englishman[92]
The Match at the Peep-Hole[94]
The Flask of Liquor[96]
Impertinence Punished[97]
Curiosity’s Uplift[99]
Proud even unto Death[101]
The Dog That Ate Dynamite[104]
Insecure Security[106]
The Loaded Chinaman[108]
Living Bombs[110]
Ships That Passed in the Night[112]
A Wild Projectile[114]
The Bomb and the Train[115]
The Missing Vessel[117]
The Drunken Messenger[118]
Nitroglycerin by Automobile[122]
The Jets of Blue[127]
The Wisdom of Retreat[129]
The Race with Death[131]
The Indomitable Poet[134]
Scattered[136]
A Lively Dead One[138]
Incidents in the Development of Motorite[139]
The Mule Gun[152]
How Gussie Got Loaded[154]
Dynamite’s Freak[155]
Explosive Vagaries[157]
The Turkey That Went to Bed[160]
Bill Bennett, Detective[162]
Winning the Ox[164]
A Duel to the Death[166]
The Bewitched Flintlock[168]
When He Shirked[171]
The Elevation of Womanhood[173]
Didn’t Know It Was Loaded[178]
The Wrong Tap[180]
“Whence All but Him Had Fled”[182]
Breaking His Nerve[184]
The Grizzly Cannon Ball[186]
The Joke Was Not on the Chinamen[188]
Chinese Fireworks[190]
Brown, the Gunner[193]
The Happening of the Unexpected[195]
When the Wash Vanished[207]
The Frightened Fisherman[211]
The Colonel Was Provoked[213]
When the Darkies Turned Pale[215]
The Dog That Was a Real Mascot[218]
Weary Willie’s Discomfiture[220]
Lo, the Poor Indian![224]

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