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It was well for me I happened to have a tinder-box, or, though I had escaped hitherto, I must have at lust perished; for in the narrower parts of the stream, where it ran swiftest, there were frequently such crags stood out from the rock, by reason of the turnings and windings, and such sets of the current against them, as, could I not have seen to manage my boat, which I took great care to keep in the middle of the stream, must have thrown me on them, to my inevitable destruction.
The time for rest had come, and when Penellan had added one more foot to the opening, he lay down beside his comrades. The next day, when the sailors awoke, they were surrounded by complete darkness. The lamp had gone out. Jean Cornbutte roused Penellan to ask him for the tinder-box, which was passed to him.
Roger wondered how they had managed to kindle a fire, while he had the tinder-box. He learned the truth, soon after, by upsetting the tinder-box, as he moved the blanket. The steel fell out; and the flint and tinder were found to be absent.
'Wotever is, is right, as the young nobleman sweetly remarked wen they put him down in the pension list 'cos his mother's uncle's vife's grandfather vunce lit the king's pipe vith a portable tinder-box. 'Not a bad notion that, Sam, said Mr. Bob Sawyer approvingly. 'Just wot the young nobleman said ev'ry quarter-day arterwards for the rest of his life, replied Mr. Weller.
If only the captain had not dropped the shells in which there might have been a chance of finding pearls! Captain Jules had hold of the iron hammer that he used when diving. Click! click! click! he struck three times on the lock of the iron safe. Like the magic tinder-box, the lid flew open.
Go straight on. There aren't any more steps." They went straight on in the dark. "When you come to the door just turn the handle and go in. Then stand still till I find the matches. I know where they are." "Did they have matches a hundred years ago?" asked Jimmy. "I meant the tinder-box," said the Princess quickly. "We always called it the matches. Don't you? Here, let me go first."
A dozen or more were cut off in this way, and soon it came to be whispered about that Marot the highwayman was the man that did it, and the chase became hot at his heels. 'Well, and what then? I asked, for Saxon had stopped to light his pipe at the same old metal tinder-box which he had used when first I met him.
"My name is Delamere," I replied, "and I commanded " "Of course, of course," interrupted Brown; "Mr Delamere it is! I knowed that I knowed that voice of yours, sir. Here, you Joe, rouse and bitt, man; here's the skipper come to life again. Half a minute, sir, and we'll have a light. Joe, you lighted the `glim' last; what did ye do wi' the tinder-box?"
I stretched myself on the grass, drew out my cigar-case, and asked the man with the blunderbuss if he had a tinder-box on him. The unknown, without speaking, produced his tinder-box, and hastened to strike a light for me. In return I gave him one of my best Havanas, for which he thanked me with an inclination of the head.
Snell, the landlord he being, as he observed, a man accustomed to put two and two together to connect with the tinder-box, which, as deputy-constable, he himself had had the honourable distinction of finding, certain recollections of a pedlar who had called to drink at the house about a month before, and had actually stated that he carried a tinder-box about with him to light his pipe.
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