. St. Nicholas [serial]. iOHN HANCOCKGREENE was fiveyears old, and had agrievance. His sister,Mariannina, was half-past six. It was Fourthof July, and all theother boys had fire-crackers, but Johnnyhad none. But though there were no fire-crackers, therewere six packages of torpedoes that UncleJoey had bought for him and Mariannina. Atfirst Johnny said he would take but one pack-age ; torpedoes were only for girls, a martyr he singled out the smallest bag,and put five into his sisters pinafore. Sadlythe two went out into the back yard. We 11 take turns out o mine first, Ninny,said h
. St. Nicholas [serial]. iOHN HANCOCKGREENE was fiveyears old, and had agrievance. His sister,Mariannina, was half-past six. It was Fourthof July, and all theother boys had fire-crackers, but Johnnyhad none. But though there were no fire-crackers, therewere six packages of torpedoes that UncleJoey had bought for him and Mariannina. Atfirst Johnny said he would take but one pack-age ; torpedoes were only for girls, a martyr he singled out the smallest bag,and put five into his sisters pinafore. Sadlythe two went out into the back yard. We 11 take turns out o mine first, Ninny,said he. First I frow, den you. Praps, after all, we d better keep the bagsall seprate, Johnny went on to say. I takehalf the bags, and you take half. But even with this careful management thetorpedoes were soon gone. Suddenly Mariannina had an idea. Shepicked up the torn cover of one of the explodedtorpedoes. It was common white examined its contents. The torpedoesseemed to be made of sand and salt and things
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