Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


But no. I have just bethought me. We shall be ready for any night-
rush. I'll take a leaf out of modern warfare, and show them not only
that we are top-dog (a favourite phrase of the mate), but WHY we are
top-dog. It is simple--night illumination. As I write I work opt
the idea--gasoline, balls of oakum, caps and gunpowder from a few
cartridges, Roman candles, and flares blue, red, and green, shallow
metal receptacles to carry the explosive and inflammable stuff; and a
trigger-like arrangement by which, pulling on a string, the caps are
exploded in the gunpowder and fire set to the gasoline-soaked oakum
and to the flares and candles. It will be brain as well as brawn
against mere brawn.

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