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Lichting A Pipe In A Wind

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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"Paddling up Sebee Lake last summer in a birch-bark canoe," said a New York sportsman to a Sun writer, "the breeze blew so hard and constantly that, try as I might, I could not keep a match ablaze long enouga to light my pipe. After half a dozen matches had flared out in the lighting oí them, I made some forcible remarks 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 newspaper 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 railroad navvy in lighting his pipe. The name instantly set the paper smoulderlng on the top without lts breaking into a blaze. He passed the burning wad to me, and it se.-ved as a pipe lighter equal to a live coal, the high breezo fanning inslcal of extinguishing it. It was the simple invention of a practical mind, which served my turn then and afterward, and I commend the device o sportsmen needing tinder for a pipe ight or to start a camp flre."

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register