StNicholas [serial] . STRINGS OF FIRECRACKERS. promising look that clearly says: You give us alight, and we 11 do the rest. And what a high oldtime it will be ! When asked how many of these bundles oneman could make in a day, the good-natured mas-ter of the shop —whose smile in Fig. 6 is proof enough to support my statement —said that oneman is counted on to make twenty bundles up tothe point where the powder is put in, when thecrackers are passed along to others to finish andweave into strings. What a string means here inthis land, where the diminutive packs we used. 6. THE PROPRIETOR OF THEF
StNicholas [serial] . STRINGS OF FIRECRACKERS. promising look that clearly says: You give us alight, and we 11 do the rest. And what a high oldtime it will be ! When asked how many of these bundles oneman could make in a day, the good-natured mas-ter of the shop —whose smile in Fig. 6 is proof enough to support my statement —said that oneman is counted on to make twenty bundles up tothe point where the powder is put in, when thecrackers are passed along to others to finish andweave into strings. What a string means here inthis land, where the diminutive packs we used. 6. THE PROPRIETOR OF THEFACTORY. FIRECRACKER to buy for a nickel would be scorned, may begathered from a glance at those which the makeris holding up in Fig. 5 and at those on the drying-boards in the view shown in Fig. 3. Once the crackers have been fully prepared forstringing, either they are put together in suchstrings as you see in the pictures or they have big-ger fellows —four or five times the size of the littleones—plaited in at regular intervals. Then theyare wrapped neatly with red or white paper inlong packages bearing on the face a red slip withthe shops name printed on it in gilt of these packets would have seemed mon-strous—needlessly extravagant —in those dayswhen I used to make one or two nickel packs lastthe better part of a Fourth of July morning byfiring them one by one in a hole in the tie-post orunder a tin can. To give these longer stringssufficient strength to hang from a pole, as is theusual way of firing them, the workmen weave inwith t
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