Subject: Re: Fire Starting and shooting the breeze

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 16:21:05 -0500

In a message dated 96-04-03 09:36:42 EST, you write:

>Why did the "old time smiths" carry a sharp knife?  To whittle small 
>splinters to start their fire.
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My eight year old daughter wants to know why they didn't carry matches.   
Mike Schermerhorn

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From: "Szucs" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 08:56:04 -0500

On Apr 3,  4:21pm, [email-masked] wrote:

> My eight year old daughter wants to know why [blacksmiths] didn't carry > >
> matches.

	Sounds like the time is at hand for her education to begin.