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Lighting A Pipe In A Wind

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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"Paddling up Sebee Lake last sumtner in abirch-bark canoe," said a New York sportsman to a Sun writer, "the breeze blew bo hard and constantly that. try as I might, I could not keep a match ablaze long enough to light my Pipe. After half a dozen matches had flared out in the lighting of thera, I fflade some forcible remarles apropos of my failure. 'Let me show you how to do it,' said my companion, an old Californian, who was handling the bow Paddie. 'Hand me a bit of that newsTaper sticking out of your pocket.' "He took the piece of paper and crumpled it up into a wad, which he retained in the palm of his hand. Then striking a match, he closed both hands about it to shield it from the wind, after the traditional manner of the railrad navvy in lighting his pipe. The flame instantly set the paper srnouldering on the top without lts breaking into blaze. He passed the burning wad to ■ne, and it served as a pipe lighter equal to a live coal, the high breeze fanning insleal of extinguishing it. It was the simple invention of a practical ■oind, which served my turn then and afterward, and I commend the devlce to sportsmen needing tinder for a pipe lisUt or to start a camp fire."

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register