I says:
“Tom Sawyer, I want to ask you some questions.”
“Go ahead,” he says, and I see Jim chirk up to listen.
“As I understand it, the whole thing is in the buttons and the peg—the rest ain’t of no consequence. A button is one shape, a peg is another shape, but that ain’t any matter?”
“No, that ain’t any matter, as long as they’ve both got the same power.”
“All right, then. What is the power that’s in a candle and in a match?”
“It’s the fire.”
“It’s the same in both, then?”
“Yes, just the same in both.”
“All right. Suppose I set fire to a carpenter shop with a match, what will happen to that carpenter shop?”