Judson reached clumsily for the lamp and a sulphur match.
After a moment he felt two thin cigars and two of the heavy, sulphur matches thrust into his fingers.
Their bucketfuls of water were having as much effect as a sulphur match in a maelstrom.
Next he brought out his bunch of sulphur matches.
The sulphur match sputtered in the little red flame, and burned up steadily, casting a bright light over her thin, veined left hand.
"They were succeeding the old lucifers or sulphur matches."
A moment later a sulphur match spluttered brightly, dimmed, and brightened again to the larger glow of a lantern.
That casual little act, the flare of a sulphur match, and the contented puff of blue tobacco smoke in the lantern light, probably saved Mark's life.
There would be a tiny burst of flame out there like the striking of a sulphur match; then nothing.
There is also the story that at the beginning of the century a person used this lean-to to make sulphur matches which he sold locally.