Bell Mountain (The Bell Mountain Series)
“Ellayne tried to start the fire by rubbing stones together to make sparks, which were supposed to ignite a little pile of dried moss she’d scraped together. “It’s in Abombalbap,” she said, through clenched teeth. “It’s how the shepherd taught him to make fire, when he was a boy. But there’s something wrong with these stones.”
From his pack Jack took a little cloth bag—which he’d filled with matches. He soon had the fire going properly.
“You might’ve told me you had matches,” Ellayne said.
“I didn’t want to use them if you could start a fire with stones. As it is, Van’s going to be hard put to cook his supper tonight. These are all his kitchen matches.”
They built up the fire and fed it. By nightfall they had it blazing powerfully. Jack had learned from other boys how to build a campfire. Boys playing outside the stockade sometimes liked to roast potatoes.
“We really ought to learn how to make fire without matches,” Ellayne said. “We won’t always have matches.”
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