Dynamite Stories

About this eBook

Author

Maxim, Hudson, 1853-1927

Title

Dynamite Stories, and Some Interesting Facts About Explosives

Credits

Produced by Joke Van Dorst and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Explosions

Category

Text

eBook-No.

46039

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46039

Release Date

June 20, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DYNAMITE STORIES
2. 2.DEDICATION
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION
5. 5.THE FORGOTTEN BIT OF FULMINATE
6. 6.HELL SWAZEY BREAKS UP THE DANCE
7. 7.THE POET’S UPLIFT
8. 8.HOW BENDER LOWERED THE PRICE OF DYNAMITE
9. 9.FOOLHARDY KRUGER
10. 10.DISCHARGING PAT
11. 11.LINES TO A LADY
12. 12.HE SEPARATED
13. 13.THE WELL-DIGGER’S CASUALTIES
14. 14.THE RIVAL EDITORS
15. 15.THE PASSING OF “JEOPARDY”
16. 16.THE INVOLUNTARY ATTACK
17. 17.HOIST WITH HIS OWN PETARD
18. 18.THE FORGOTTEN PRECAUTION
19. 19.THE FATAL HAT
20. 20.A DROP TOO MUCH
21. 21.A CLOSE CALL
22. 22.A PICKANINNY’S TREASURE TROVE
23. 23.NOT TO BE BUNCOED
24. 24.SIR FREDERICK’S BONFIRE
25. 25.THE IRREVERENT NATIVE
26. 26.AT FOLLY’S MERCY
27. 27.THE WATCHMAN’S DOUBLE VISION
28. 28.THE ZEALOUS FOOL
29. 29.SOME LIVELY COTTON WASTE
30. 30.SAVING TIME
31. 31.THE BROKEN SCALE
32. 32.THE SINGULAR GOOD FORTUNE OF A GENTLE ENGLISHMAN
33. 33.THE MATCH AT THE PEEP-HOLE
34. 34.THE FLASK OF LIQUOR
35. 35.IMPERTINENCE PUNISHED
36. 36.CURIOSITY’S UPLIFT
37. 37.PROUD EVEN UNTO DEATH
38. 38.THE DOG THAT ATE DYNAMITE
39. 39.INSECURE SECURITY
40. 40.THE LOADED CHINAMAN
41. 41.LIVING BOMBS
42. 42.SHIPS THAT PASSED IN THE NIGHT
43. 43.A WILD PROJECTILE
44. 44.THE BOMB AND THE TRAIN
45. 45.THE MISSING VESSEL
46. 46.THE DRUNKEN MESSENGER
47. 47.NITROGLYCERIN BY AUTOMOBILE
48. 48.THE JETS OF BLUE
49. 49.THE WISDOM OF RETREAT
50. 50.THE RACE WITH DEATH
51. 51.THE INDOMITABLE POET
52. 52.SCATTERED
53. 53.A LIVELY DEAD ONE
54. 54.INCIDENTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MOTORITE
55. 55.THE MULE GUN
56. 56.HOW GUSSIE GOT LOADED
57. 57.DYNAMITE’S FREAK
58. 58.EXPLOSIVE VAGARIES
59. 59.THE TURKEY THAT WENT TO BED
60. 60.BILL BENNETT, DETECTIVE
61. 61.WINNING THE OX
62. 62.A DUEL TO THE DEATH
63. 63.THE BEWITCHED FLINTLOCK
64. 64.WHEN HE SHIRKED
65. 65.THE ELEVATION OF WOMANHOOD
66. 66.DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS LOADED
67. 67.THE WRONG TAP
68. 68.“WHENCE ALL BUT HIM HAD FLED”
69. 69.BREAKING HIS NERVE
70. 70.THE GRIZZLY CANNON BALL
71. 71.THE JOKE WAS NOT ON THE CHINAMEN
72. 72.CHINESE FIREWORKS
73. 73.BROWN, THE GUNNER
74. 74.THE HAPPENING OF THE UNEXPECTED
75. 75.WHEN THE WASH VANISHED
76. 76.THE FRIGHTENED FISHERMAN
77. 77.THE COLONEL WAS PROVOKED
78. 78.WHEN THE DARKIES TURNED PALE
79. 79.THE DOG THAT WAS A REAL MASCOT
80. 80.WEARY WILLIE’S DISCOMFITURE
81. 81.LO, THE POOR INDIAN!

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