Boom, Boom, Boom it went again, each time almost knocking the little cannoneer off his feet.
What caused the blast was an unexploded shell that had stood in the Rand dust outside the Stoltzes' door for half a centurysince some unknown cannoneer had misfired or .
The press attention attracted by his plight has prompted Jerusalem's orthodox Jewish mayor, Uri Lupolianski, to promise that the city would bankroll the Arab cannoneer's training .