Hand-grenade

The bullet-proof shutters, the stacks of hand-grenades, and the Gatling guns of the Sub-Treasury are tacit admissions of the fact and of the quality of the mercy expected.

‘A hand-grenade. One of those potato-mashers. It just blew the whole side of my foot off.’

I went back in and threw a hand-grenade under the bed and then I brassed up the house. They were dead, of course.

But what could Croatian chimney-sweeper Marko have been thinking by using a hand-grenade as a weight for his broom and then turning on his welding apparatus in the cleaning process?