D. D. Beauchamp (A); 13Aug69; R466900. Slow fuse.

They splashed the valley with shrapnel, and during the few moments' lull when the yeomanry were lost to view behind the mound they set their shell fuses at zero to make them burst at the mouth of the guns and act as case shot.

Q. Why don't the lead fuse with water over it?

They were followed by other files of troops, who sprayed kerosene into the houses, others applied lighted fuses and the town was systematically destroyed.

When the men were busy examining the broken fuse he would step out and join them.

For example: to desert, to abandon; despot, tyrant; contemptible, mean or vile; to fuse, to blend; inviolable, sacred.

"And the little fuse that is in the side of it fires it?

"So we toted ten cases of giant to the bottom of the mill, fixed the cap and fuse careful, touched her off, and walked away from there.