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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

This night my boy Wainman, as I was in my chamber, [I]
overheard him let off some Gunpowder; and hearing my wife chide
him below for it, and a noise made, I call him up and find that
it was powder that he had put in his pocket, and a mach
carelessely with it, thinking that it was out; and so the match
did give fire to the powder and had burned his side and his
hand, that he put into his pocket to put out the fire.

		-- Pepys' Diary, 2 Nov. 1661

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