If it's not a washout, somebody will get fired.

I asked him how he got fire; and he produced a little cylindrical box of friction-matches.

"You've got to win this race or get fired," he snarled.

"Why did you get fired, if you don't mind my asking?" "It was troubling.

He built two huts with pimento trees, covered them with long grass, & lined them with the skins of goats, which be killed with his gun as he wanted, so long as his powder lasted, which was but a pound; and that being almost spent, he got fire by rubbing two sticks of pimento-wood together upon his knee.

There was also an abundance of glue and other materials about, and he was getting fire out of a large coal-pan.

Our next object was to get fire, and after gathering some of the driest fuel to be found, and having a small piece of cotton wick-yarn, with flint and steel, we kindled a fire, which was never afterwards suffered to be extinguished.

GETTING FIRE WITH THE FIRE DRILL From a photograph in The American Museum of Natural History.

GETTING FIRE WITH THE FIRE DRILL Photograph in The American Museum of Natural History] Under these circumstances there was nothing to be done but to push on to Gizhiga, which could be reached, the Cossack said, in two or three days.