Old West Surrey; Some Notes And Memories
Old West Surrey; Some Notes And Memories
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A sluggish spark on the tinder was sometimes urged into activity by a tiny pinch of gun- powder. Men in the fields would pick up a bit of flint and strike it on the backs of their knives ; they had a piece of touch-paper in their pockets, and so got a light. The tinder was made of cotton or linen rags ' Blue rags is the best, ' one old friend tells me, but another said they used to favour the feet of old cotton stockings. ' You takes your bit of rag in the tongs and holds it to the fire ; SULPH...UR MATCHES CANDLE-LIGHT AND CANDLESTICKS 109 when it's just well alight you drops it into the box and quenches it with the damper. ' A better class of tinder-box was made of brass, and has the same kind of straight handle as the good, simple hand- BRASS TINDER-BOX AND BRASS CANDLESTICK candlestick, also of brass, of frying-pan shape a pattern that was widely used, for it was made also in silver. ' The first lucifer matches I ever seen, ' said one of my old neighbours, 'was in the year 1839. They came from CANDLE-BOX Southampton and were called Congreves, and were sold by the gross.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A sluggish spark on the tinder was sometimes urged into activity by a tiny pinch of gun- powder. Men in the fields would pick up a bit of flint and strike it on the backs of their knives ; they had a piece of touch-paper in their pockets, and so got a light. The tinder was made of cotton or linen rags ' Blue rags is the best, ' one old friend tells me, but another said they used to favour the feet of old cotton stockings. ' You takes your bit of rag in the tongs and holds it to the fire ; SULPH...UR MATCHES CANDLE-LIGHT AND CANDLESTICKS 109 when it's just well alight you drops it into the box and quenches it with the damper. ' A better class of tinder-box was made of brass, and has the same kind of straight handle as the good, simple hand- BRASS TINDER-BOX AND BRASS CANDLESTICK candlestick, also of brass, of frying-pan shape a pattern that was widely used, for it was made also in silver. ' The first lucifer matches I ever seen, ' said one of my old neighbours, 'was in the year 1839. They came from CANDLE-BOX Southampton and were called Congreves, and were sold by the gross.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Gertrude Jekyll to read onlineMoreLess
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