35/37 For two whole days you deliberated together as to the best way of obtaining matches, the phosphorus of which is the most efficacious of poisons. In great houses only the domestics have charge of the matches, it was impossible to get any. At last the girl hit on an expedient. She discovered that if you put a copper coin in a glass dish and pour strong vinegar over it, verdegris will be formed and verdegris is poison. |