What I got is dirt-blowing dynamite, the kind powder companies sell for making drainage ditches and blowing stumps and so on.

I didn't know whether I should have to use it, but I always like to have a trick up my sleeve.

Powder is ordinarily too expensive to employ when fresnos can work, yet it's just the thing in a pinch.

We're in an emergency now.

If it should set in and snow right along, with one storm on top of another, as may happen after so long a mild season, powder even may not help us out.