"Perfectly correct," said Morgan; "but before deciding the quantity of powder necessary to give the impulse, I think it would be as well "
"We shall have to employ a large-grained powder," continued the major; "its combustion is more rapid than that of the small."
"Well," continued the Tin Woodman, "the old woman had an idea that the Powder in the bottle must be moth-powder, because it smelled something like moth-powder; so one day she sprinkled it on her bear rug to keep the moths out of it.
"Therefore I believe it is a good thing that all the Magic Powder of Life is now used up, as it can not cause any more trouble."
"But tell me, please, what you intend to do with this new lot of the Powder of Life, which Dr.
No servant will come here because the place is so lonely and out-of-the-way, so my clever husband, the Crooked Magician, proposed that I make a girl out of some sort of material and he would make her live by sprinkling over her the Powder of Life.
What do you think a mother would feel like if she found her child tattooed over with a baking
powder advertisement?
"We're a-changing of the powder, Jack," answers one.
"Easy with that, men--easy," he ran on, to the fellows who were shifting the powder; and then suddenly observing me examining the swivel we carried amidships, a long brass nine, "Here you, ship's boy," he cried, "out o' that!
I came into Oxford Street by the Marble Arch, and here again were black
powder and several bodies, and an evil, ominous smell from the gratings of the cellars of some of the houses.
As for Porthos, after having hurled the barrel of
powder amidst his enemies, he had fled, as Aramis had directed him to do, and had gained the last compartment, into which air, light, and sunshine penetrated through the opening.
This was game indeed to us, but this was no food; and I was very sorry to lose three charges of
powder and shot upon a creature that was good for nothing to us.