Tinder-box

For me, you shall bring nothing but an old tinder-box which my grandmother forgot last time she was down there.

Tell me at once what you want to do with the tinder-box, or I will draw my sword, and cut off your head!

The rain had washed away all possibility of distinguishing foot-marks, but a close investigation of the spot had disclosed, in the direction opposite to the village, a tinder-box, with a flint and steel, half sunk in the mud.