A Safety Match

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A Safety Match (1911)
by Ian Hay

"I say, Nicky," he began deferentially, "have you got Master Bung?" Nicky surveyed her hand for a moment, and then raised a pair of liquid-blue eyes and smiled seraphically.

"No, Stiffy, dear," she replied; "but I'll have Mr Bung and Mrs Bung." Stiffy, resigned as ever, handed over the cards. Suddenly Sebastian Aloysius Vereker, the eldest son of the family (usually addressed as "Ally"), put down his cards and remarked, slowly and without heat:—"Cheating again! My word, Nicky, you are the absolute edge!"

Frontispiece by F. Graham Cootes.

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JACK, IT WAS SPLENDID OF YOU! (p.253)



A SAFETY MATCH


BY

IAN HAY


WITH FRONTISPIECE BY
F. GRAHAM COOTES



BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Cambridge Press Cambridge


TO
H. M. S.

Contents

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BOOK ONE
THE STRIKING OF THE MATCH


BOOK TWO
FLICKERINGS


BOOK THREE
THE LIGHTING OF THE CANDLE

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