Stands For Rockets Care Must Be Taken In Placing The Rockets

when they are to be fired, to give them a vertical direction at their

first setting out; which may be managed thus: Have two rails of wood,

of any length, supported at each end by a perpendicular leg, so that

the rails may be horizontal, and let the distance from one to the

other be almost equal to the length of the sticks of the rockets

intended to be fired; then in the front of the top rail drive square

hooks at eight inches distance, with their points turned sidewise, so

that when the rockets are hung on them, the points will be before the

sticks, and keep them from falling or being blown off by the wind; in

the front of the rail at bottom must be staples, driven

perpendicularly under the hooks at top; through these staples put the

small ends of the rocket-sticks. Rockets are fired by applying a

lighted port-fire to their mouths.