... might have been set a much harder task; a match-box, with its easy transition to matches and so to light in general, was almost easy, what our airmen call, as I understand, a piece of cake. The author himself thought lightly of it and would doubtless ...

... Christmas-time or Twelfth Night to fire their guns through the branches, pour cider round the roots of the trees, place pieces of cake soaked in cider in the forks of the trees, and then . ing some variant of t he t raditional wassailing song: H ere's to ...