And one day fortune played into his hand by sending a customer to the shop for two ounces of gunpowder, when Paul was standing by. / Do you keep gunpowder, then? said Paul, with kindling eyes, as the man left the shop. / Yes, answered his brother innocently, but we only sell it to grown-up people. Boys wouldn't know what to do with it. / Wouldn't they, though? Why, you can make fizgigs of it that blaze like Vesuvius, the burning mountain.

And if it was milk I was after from that environment I could clearly whistle for it.

I can't stand the sight of him, he would say, and I'd be glad if somebody would come along and knock his block off—when he was not in the ring.

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