Besides, the most convenient medium for lighting one's pipe is paper, after all; and if you have not an old envelope in your pocket, there is probably a photograph standing on the mantelpiece.
It is convenient to have the magazines lying handy; or a page from a book--hand-made paper burns beautifully--will do.

To be sure, there is the lighting of your paper.

For this your lamp is practically useless, standing in the middle of the table, while you are in an easy-chair by the fireside; and as for the tape-and-spark contrivance, it is the introduction of machinery into the softest joys of life.

The fire is best.

It is near you, and you drop your burning spill into it with a minimum waste of energy.