THE OLD GUERNSEY LAMP. 457 



If by chance the tinder-box got out of order, or if there 

 was not one in the house, the people were obliged to wait 

 until some of their neighbours had got up before they could 

 procure a fire or even a light. In these days of cheap 

 matches we can hardly conceive the inconveniences which 

 would result, but I suppose none of us would care to go 

 back to the olden days of the tinder-box and crasset. 



