THE FIRE LIGHTER ail The story-teller was describing how "'", 4 11.
the fire. 'I never lights it for my misses out looking up the chimley first. When gic first married she used to laugh about it f., ask me if 1 had money in an old sock up 0'00 I told her I was making sure there was,r°04. for the smoke, but she never believed although that was what I was doing. I've II„ cog got out of the habit, and I still does " account of my Dad and what happened 1°„0 once. We took one of them little farms °rot the hills. We didn't have much stuff 1004 had only one horse and the beds had to c°11, after the mattresses. We slept on their floor that first night, and Dad put a mat mid it the fire to keep the damp away. In the "d .50 of the night I woke up and thought I tottt Kingdom Come. 1 couldn't breathe! I sb"00! my sister, but she wouldn't wake up. I 5,401 Dad and he moaned and coughed for a -44 and then crawled out. Somebody had something in the chimley and if I ball; woke up we'd all have been suffocate was all right in the end, but ever since 1,.nriorl sets fire to anything in the grate without 11" a look to sec there's some way out Or smoke!'
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