Ace Drummond Chapter Five, ``Bullets of Sand'', opens with the discovery that Ace Drummond is not dead. (The previous installment I covered the 29th of June, and the earlier chapters yet in the days leading up to that..)
( Oh, I should mention, I'm at BunnyHugger's for the next several days, so I'm using recaps of _Ace Drummond_ to make sure I have entertaining copy written up and ready to go for the interim. I mean entertaining to me. Everyone else can glaze over my curious efforts to spoiler-proof a 70-year-old serial that if you had any interest in watching you would have already seen, although it is available on archive.org if you want to form your own opinions. )I don't know what the titular ``Bullets of Sand'' are supposed to be. Maybe it's the wood chips or whatever being sprayed on Billy?
Trivia: President Andrew Jackson and Secretary of State Martin van Buren both signed William Austin Burt's typographer patent on 23 July 1829. Source: The Wonderful Writing Machine, Bruce Bliven Jr.
Currently Reading: Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2011, Editor Sheila Williams.