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numerous and strange. A London paper mentions the decease of a person from a singular cause. He was playing at 'puff the dart,' which is played with a long needle inserted in some worsted, and blown at a target through a tin tube. He placed the needle at the wrong end of the tube, and drawing his breath strongly to puff the dart forward with force, drew the needle into his throat. It entered the lungs, and in a few days killed him." Best American Humorous Short Stories, by Various 19 Upon

at medium to long range, with a few accurate rounds rather than an entire clip spread all over. Iron sIghts and scopes When you fire a weapon using the reticle to aim, you are essentially firing from the hip, with the butt of your weapon in the crook of your arm. This is not very accurate and should only be used at close range. To increase your accuracy, press the zoom button. This will bring up the iron sight view, where you are actually looking through the weapon’s sight to aim. The butt of the

husband banned TV from the house? Were his convictions so strong that he wanted to shield his adopted daughter from the frenzied carnival of American pop culture—that godless free-for-all of glitz and garbage that poured out endlessly from every cathode tube in the land? Perhaps. We wouldn't know anything about Minor until Lucy told us where she lived, and for now she wasn't saying a word. Tom had guessed Kansas City because of the T-shirt, but she had refused to confirm or deny it, which meant that she

It is composed of ivory and a crystalline substance, so it looks precious; it is barely/hardly larger than a small clock. • The people who attend the experiment are here to make sure that it is not a fraud, that the Time Traveller is not a crook/a charlatan trying to fool/deceive them. That’s why it is the Psychologist who activates the mechanism. • The narrator is surprised/taken aback by the result of the experiment and claims there was no trick. • The experiment is described like