Word: envelope
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with shavings and paper saturated with kerosene, cart wheels, filched from a neighboring wheel wright's shop, front gates, fence rails, and in fact anything they could lay their hands on. The fool-hardiness of some who poured on kerosene from tin cans, which the flames almost seemed to envelop was extraordinary; it is only a wonder that the bon-fire had not served as a funeral pile for these rash youths. Balch, the anchor of the tug-of-war team, was the hero of the hour; again and again he was carried around the fire on the shoulders...