Children's books (was Inside, Outside, Near Lane, Far Lane, whatever...)

[Goddlefrood]

> [Mary Ann]:
> | the term that puzzled me for a long time was "torch",

> [Lee]:
> <LOL> I remember my first run-in with "torch" in "Prince Caspian,"
> where Edmund had a battery-operated torch

Goddlefrood:

A torch makes perfect sense to me. Flashlights don't flash, now do 
they?