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There was the same crowd of children, slatternly women and tobacco-spitting men in the dirty day-coaches, and Hale sat among them for a Pullman was no longer attached to the train that ran to the Gap. As he neared the bulk of Powell's mountain and ran along its mighty flank, he passed the ore-mines.
"My eye!" jeered his companion; "and do you fancy a little swallow of brandy is going to make my folks ashamed of me?" "It isn't the single swallow I object to, Jack; it's the habit of drinking. That's a foolish thing, to say the least, for young fellows, like you and me, to get into; and we all know what it leads to. Who wants to become a tobacco-spitting, rum-drinking, filthy old man?"
The cigars consumed, he obtained more tobacco of some negroes, addicted himself to a pipe, and became a regular smoker. Now, I don't mean to say that this, of itself, was a very great sin. It was, however, a foolish thing in Frank to form at his age a habit which might tyrannize over him for life, and make him in the end, as he himself once said to John Winch, "a filthy, tobacco-spitting old man."
"He should be able for a good day's work." "Yes; he's none of your tobacco-spitting, wizened-up little runts like you'll see hangin' on to the corner-posts in Noonoon." "Seems to admire your granddaughter?" "An' he's not the first by a long way that has done that, though she was only nineteen this month." "I can quite believe it. She is a lovely girl." "An' more than that, a good one.
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