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To: JRandomFreeper
BTW. What is your recommended 19th century way to start fires? I heat and can cook with wood, so I have stocked a tote full of matches, but, I wonder if I should find a flint rock in case I expend my book matches.
90 posted on 03/29/2014 6:56:19 AM PDT by SisterK (behold a pale horse)
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To: SisterK
Flint and steel. I carry dryer lint in my tinder bag.

/johnny

92 posted on 03/29/2014 6:59:06 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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