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When through with the knocker he rubbed the fender, andirons, shovels, tongs, nozzle of the bellows, the hooks by the jams, candlesticks, snuffer, extinguisher, trays, and tinder-box, and wiped the dust from the glazed tiles of the hearth. It was the routine of every morning. Equally bright were the brass pots and pans in Phillis's realm.
A man with a flint and steel striking sparks over a wet blanket is one thing, and striking them over a tinder-box is another. The free Englishman is born under protest; he lives and dies under protest, a tolerated, but not a welcome fact. Is not freethinker a term of reproach in England?
Having then struck a spark in a tinder-box and lighted a match, I set fire to the combustible heap, and was not slow in raising a cheerful blaze; I then drew my cart near the fire, and, seating myself on one of the shafts, hung over the warmth with feelings of intense pleasure and satisfaction.
Why?" "Because I want to know what to call it. You see, I don't know whether I'm going to have a siesta or a genuine snooze." "Have both," said Aleck, laughing, "and I'll do the same." "And it doesn't matter, does it, for night and day seem to be about the same? Put out that candle, and mind where the tinder-box is."
Besides these things, each boat is supplied with a case in which are stowed several necessary articles, the most important being a lantern and tinder-box the lantern to be used as a signal when caught out at night a compass, and perhaps a small cooking-apparatus. A whale-boat, when going in chase, has a crew of six men: one is called the headsman, the other the boat-steerer.
The guard soon replaced his blunderbuss in his arm-chest, and, having looked to the rest of its contents, and having looked to the supplementary pistols that he wore in his belt, looked to a smaller chest beneath his seat, in which there were a few smith's tools, a couple of torches, and a tinder-box. "Tom!" softly over the coach roof. "Hallo, Joe." "Did you hear the message?" "I did, Joe."
"Mount," I whispered, as he lingered waiting for us at the stepping-stones in the dark, "some one has passed this trail since I stood here an hour ago." And, bending down, I pointed to a high, flat stepping-stone, which glimmered wet in the pale light of the stars. Sir George drew his tinder-box, struck steel to flint, and lighted a short wax dip. "Here!" whispered Mount.
When we were seated on the rock, my dear Brigitte asked for the bottle; I had lost it, as well as a tinder-box which served another purpose: that was to read the inscriptions on the guide-posts when we went astray, which occurred frequently.
The girl and I strolled a little back from the window and stood, awaiting the key. "So it's all come true," said I, looking at her. "What has?" "The fairy tale." I pointed to the kitchen. "There is the copper castle, and here" with a bow "the pretty Princess. The tinder-box I have just thrown to my companions." "And I suppose you're the soldier," she said slowly.
From an oversight on the part of the smith, who had neglected to bring his tinder-box and matches from the vessel, the work was prevented from being continued for at least an hour longer.
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