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"And a very good custom, and most needful," answered Mrs. Carroway. "I never can see why men should want to do all sorts of foolish things with tobacco dirty stuff, and full of dust. No sooner do they begin, like a tinder-box, than one would think that it made them all alike.
Providing themselves with a musket, a powder-horn containing twelve charges of powder, with as many balls, an axe, a kettle, about twenty pounds of flour, a knife, a tinder-box, some tobacco and each his wooden pipe, they soon arrived on the island. Their first employment was exploring the country, when they discovered the hut alluded to, about a mile and a half from the shore.
"I remember an old English comedy," said Flemming laughing, "in which a scholar is described, as a creature, that can strike fire in the morning at his tinder-box, put on a pair of lined slippers, sit ruminating till dinner, and then go to his meat when the bell rings; one that hath a peculiar gift in a cough, and a license to spit; or, if you will have him defined by negatives, he is one that cannot make a good leg; one that cannot eat a mess of broth cleanly.
"This is a little better than the other place was," he mused. "But I'd like to know just what sort of a hole this is, and what the prospect is of getting out." Like Barringford, the young pioneer carried a flint and tinder-box with him, and under the rocks it was a comparatively easy matter for Henry to strike a light.
He put the dog back upon the chest, shut the door, and then called up through the tree: 'Now pull me up again, old Witch! 'Have you got the tinder-box also? asked the Witch. 'Botheration! said the Soldier, 'I had clean forgotten it! And then he went back and fetched it. The Witch pulled him up, and there he stood again on the high road, with pockets, knapsack, cap and boots filled with gold.
I going first and taking his legs, and Jim holding him by the shoulders, we succeeded at last. While Jim supported him at the bottom of the ladder, I hunted about till I found a tinder-box and matches and lighted the cabin lamp. It showed us, as I had supposed, that the person I had rescued was our captain. He was pale as death, and bleeding from a wound in the head.
"So, so, my dear," says Youwarkee, "you would roll in riches, I find; but you have mentioned never a new gown for me." "Why, aye!" says I, "I would have that too." "But how would you melt the pitch?" says she. "Oh," says I, "there is a tinder-box and matches in a room below, upon the side of the fire-hearth."
A tinder-box is a small matter! an object of infinitesimal importance when the broad light of day illumines the interior of houses or the bosquets of a park, but it becomes an object of paramount importance, when the night is pitch dark, and when it is necessary to effect an exchange of clothing within the four walls of a pavilion.
Encouraged by these reflections, I now resolved to descend, and explore the cabin, though sorely against Jarl's counsel. To be sure, as he earnestly said, this step might have been deferred till daylight; but it seemed too wearisome to wait. So bethinking me of our tinder-box and candles, I sent him into the boat for them.
'This is a pretty kind of tinder-box, if I can get whatever I want like this. Get me money! he cried to the dog, and hey, presto! he was off and back again, holding a great purse full of money in his mouth. Now the Soldier knew what a capital tinder-box this was.
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