Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 512
re-finger under the pyrites to protect the handwhen a spark is being struck off into the tinderin the bag. With the Iron Age came the use of the flintand steel, and the most ancient specimens ofthese fire-making tools are so nearly like thosefound in many an old garret to-day that de-scription… … CHA*TH--r*.a.«Jlu^- q •§.. 5oo FIRE-MAKING. jecting axle, much as one spins a top. Theflint was pressed against the whirling wheel,and a shower of sparks fell into the tinderwithin the box. The pocket strike-a-light isstill used by the peasants of France for lightingtheir pipes. The Chinese…
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