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What happy remembrances I reveled in all that day, of serenades, and oyster-suppers, and pretty girls, and a thousand other fascinations of early youth, all of which grew out of a paper of fine-cut. My experiences in Sweden were even more delightful in this respect than in Russia. At Stockholm I saw drunken men every day, and at Gottenburg it was the prevailing trait.
Good-by, now." Barnabas took the proffered pack of chewing tobacco, and sighed deeply. "Well, good-by. If you hear any shooting, you'll know it's me," he said, as he took a big mouthful of the fine-cut.
As he drew near, the pedestrian ceased to whistle, and, just as the farmer expected him to pass, he stopped and said, in a free and easy style: "How de do? Give me a chaw t'baccer. I'm Pill, the new minister. I take fine-cut when I can get it," he said, as Bacon put his hand into his pocket. "Much obliged. How goes it?"
Smoke cigarettes up here in the hay, and burn down my ancestral stables for me!" shouted the Earl in surprise. "Good night! You've got about as much brains as Holmes says you have, Letstrayed. But here, I realize that it'll be pretty lonesome up here watching for a hidden crook with nobody but a lot of pigeons for company, so you can take this package of fine-cut, and chew to your heart's content.
"I've got some tobacco," said the youthful Jenkins, "but it's fine-cut; I use only that now." "I kin buy some plug at the corner grocery," said Pirate Jim, "only I left my port-money at home." "Take this watch," said young Golightly; "it is my father's. Since he became a tyrant and usurper, and forced me to join a corsair's band, I've began by dividing the property."
"Jenks stretched himself and took a morphine tablet. "'You've got to back up against th' 'dobe, old man, says he to me. 'Three weeks, I believe, you get. Haven't got a chew of fine-cut on you, have you? "'Translate that again, with foot-notes and a glossary, says I. 'I don't know whether I'm discharged, condemned, or handed over to the Gerry Society. "'Oh, says Jenks, 'don't you understand?
We never knew whether to believe this or not, though we had many times previously gone over Brad's calculation, by which he figured that he could sell at least three tons of fine-cut from one summer's produce.
It would seem that had any little devils not been strained out of his blood by his long line of Huguenot ancestry, they had followed the fate of the fine-cut, for no one who knew Clifford van der Veere was ever anxious about the probity of his conduct. He did not take to the importing business, while his cousins early showed a natural capacity for the work of the big firm in all its branches.
Little Mose followed him down the track toward the paddock; he had to trot to keep up with the old man's stride. "Might have knowed they'd team up agin us," said the negro. "Them Irish jockeys had a story all cooked to tell." Old Man Curry did not open his mouth until he reached his tack-room, and then it was only to stuff one cheek with fine-cut tobacco his solace in times of stress.
On another occasion, when at sea in the Indian Ocean, after many dreary months of absence from home, I one day accidentally found in the pocket of an old coat a paper of fine-cut chewing tobacco.
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