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meaning Jack Abbey, "you must go to Pickworth and 

 ask Mr. Thraves to lend you a ladder and some ropes 

 and a lantern, and don't forget to bring a tinder-box 

 and some matches, in case the lantern should go 



out." 



In those days lucifer matches were not born, and 

 a flint and steel and some burnt rag in a flat tin 

 box was the only way that the housemaid in the 

 morning had to light a fire, with the assistance 

 of some thinly split deal, cut to a point, which had 

 been dipped into melted brimstone. 



After waiting, as we thought, a long while for a 

 " watched kettle," they say, never boils Jack Abbey 

 appeared, riding with the ladder over his shoulder, 

 and the ropes and horn lantern, and a lot of tallow 

 dip-candles strapped on the front of his saddle. 

 All being ready, Lambert descends, and in a short 

 time up comes a hound, the rope having been made 

 fast to one pair of couples, then another, and then 

 another, till all the lost hounds are safely out of 

 the said f( swallow-hole." Only one hound was a 

 little hurt, which seemed a marvel, as it was a real 

 nasty place for anything to go down head-first, 

 which all must have done. The hounds being all 

 pretty safely got out, the next inquiry was, Where is 



