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Ginger! what the devil is ginger? Sea-coal? firewood? lucifer matches? tinder? gunpowder? what the devil is ginger, I say, that you offer this cup to our poor Queequeg here." "There is some sneaking Temperance Society movement about this business," he suddenly added, now approaching Starbuck, who had just come from forward. "Will you look at that kannakin, sir; smell of it, if you please."
Osman, the cook, with a temper like tinder from too much heat, refused flatly to let Caesar make toffee in her kitchen. But just then a barrel-organ turned up, and before she could open her mouth, Caesar was dancing a polka with her; and after that he could make toffee, or hay, or anything else, wherever and whenever he pleased.
It was necessary to be as good a horseman as he was to risk such a scheme, for no sooner had the animal felt the burning tinder than he uttered a cry of pain and reared and jumped as if he had been mad. The soldiers, whom he was nearly trampling, ran away. "Help! help!" cried D'Artagnan; "stop my horse has the staggers." In an instant the horse's eyes grew bloodshot and he was white with foam.
"New York, my dear Sir, must transport, man-handle, murder, wheedle, bowstring, drown, and permanently lose Josephine, Countess St. Auban, herself late back from Missouri, formerly of God knows where. I promise you, this country is only a tinder box, waiting for that sort of spark. To-morrow but you remember, my dear Horatio!" "But between now and to-morrow is rather a brief period.
These being arranged, with a core of dry moss and broken twigs in the centre, the patient man struck a light by means of flint, steel, and tinder, and applied it. While the first few tongues of fire were crackling in the core of moss, he spread a thick blanket on his bed, and then stood up leisurely to fill his pipe and dreamily to watch the kindling of the fire.
"Have you no light at hand?" said my companion, speaking for the first time in a very soft, yet clear voice. "No, I have not, but I will get some tinder, and make a fire with one of the faggots, and then you will be able to see." "Do so, then, my good lad," replied she. I thought her voice very pleasing. She examined the cabin and the bed-places, and then said, "Where do you sleep?"
No chance, now, thought I, as I descended once more; "I may as well go and be suffocated at once." I knocked my foot against something, in stepping off the ladder, which, on putting down my hand, I found to be tinder box, with steel and flint.
Just as with flint and steel you may strike a spark, so danger, striking against our heart, brings out the flash that kindles the tinder. This brief cry for help singularly blends faith and fear. There is faith in it, else Peter would not have appealed to Christ to save him. There is mortal terror in it, else he would not have felt that he needed to cry.
"Steer for steer, cow for cow, hoof for hoof I'll put Quarter Circle KT critters against every brute you own that th' Ramblin' Kid lands his horse tinder the wire ahead of Thunderbolt!" Dorsey paled, then a purple-red of fury spread over his neck and face, and with an oath he cried: "I'll call you!"
It is further added that on one occasion a shepherd happened to pass the mysterious spot where the thistle was growing, when instantly his arms were paralysed and his staff became tinder. Accounts of these fabulous trees and plants have in years gone been very numerous, and have not yet wholly died out, surviving in the legendary tales of most countries.
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