There has been talk. in England of using peat to help-the winter fuel supply. If peat should come into general -use it may solve another difficulty, that of the shortage of matches. Sir Herbert Maxwell has" told how he and a friend, being out in a storm in the took refuge in a cottage, and asked the good wife to make them some cakes for lunch. There seemed nothing on the hearth but n little white peat-ash, but, blowing it on one side, she revealed glowing embers. Asked by Sir Herbert Maxwell's friend how long her firo had been alight, the goodwife astonished him by answering,- "It's jjuse seven and twenty year come Martinmas since 11 ob an' mo came to this -hoose, an' the fire's never been oot syn-syric."'
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16404, 26 December 1918, Page 9
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