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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:12:10 CST
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- From: Kyle Grimes <ARHU018@UABDPO.BITNET>
- Subject: "fire a train"?
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- The following paragraph comes from William Hone's autobiography,
- written in the 1830s-40s but describing an event of c. 1790. Could
- someone enlighten me as to the meaning of "firing a train"?
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- As a youngster I was not exempt from the perils of boyish
- adventure; all through my life I have felt the splinters of a
- glass bottle, which shattered in my hand while firing a train,
- and inspired me with a wholesome distaste for gunpowder.
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- Many thanks,
-
- Kyle Grimes Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
- arhu018@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu / ARHU018@UABDPO.BITNET
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