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How proud were the young amateur blacksmiths when the kind-hearted owner of the shop gave them liberty to heat and pound a bit of nail-rod, to mend a skate or a sled-runner, or sharpen a pronged fish- spear!
Our nose-bags were nice and heavy, and we still had about a pound of nail-rod between us. The moon reminded my mate, Jack Mitchell, of something anything reminded him of something, in fact. "Did you ever notice," said Jack, in a lazy tone, just as if he didn't want to tell a yarn "Did you ever notice that people always shoot the moon when there's no moon? Have you got the matches?"
Forthwith, the chests were dragged out; the dark places explored; and two sticks of nail-rod tobacco, and several old "chaws," thrown aside by sailors on some previous voyage, were their cheering reward. They were impartially divided by Jackson, who, upon this occasion, acquitted himself to the satisfaction of all.
I put it ter you! I'm a heavy smoker meself, an' I've known what it is to be without a smoke on the track. But "nail-rod" is ninepence a stick out here, an' I have ter pay carriage. It all mounts up, I can tell yer.
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