match-burning

Updated: August 5, 2026

Now, from the house came a white-faced man, running as though some demon animated him. Behind him came a woman even paler. Toward father and mother ran the pair of little tots, wholly unmindful of their rescuers. As for the older, match-burning boy, that youngster half scared to death, had dashed away into hiding to escape the wrath that he knew must soon seek him.

H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock - The High School Boys' Training Hike