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"A smoker, and no pipe about 'ee?" "I have dropped it somewhere on the road." The shepherd filled and handed him a new clay pipe, saying, as he did so, "Hand me your baccy-box I'll fill that too, now I am about it." The man went through the movement of searching his pockets. "Lost that too?" said his entertainer, with some surprise. "I am afraid so," said the man with some confusion.
"Faix, thin, I will be grateful to him till the end of me days," answered Mike; "and I hope that you will receive, for your throuble in coming, Masther Kakaik, my 'baccy-box, and half-a-dozen red cotton handkerchiefs for your wife and childer, all of them bran-new, except one which I wore as a night-cap when I last had a cowld, and another which has been in use for a matther of a week or so."
"Arter all, a man can't 'elp winning a prize," ses Bill Chambers, looking round. "I couldn't," ses Bob. He sat down and 'elped hisself out o' Sam Jones's baccy-box; and one or two got up on the quiet and went outside to listen to wot was going on down the road.
"I put my broom agin the wall, and we walked round to the Bull's Head like a couple o' brothers. We 'ad two pints apiece, and then he put his 'and on my shoulder and talked as man to man. "'I'm in a little bit o' difficulty about that gal o' mine, he ses, passing me his baccy-box. 'Six months ago she dropped a letter out of 'er pocket, and I'm blest if it wasn't from a young man. A young man!
"A smoker, and no pipe about ye?" "I have dropped it somewhere on the road." The shepherd filled and handed him a new clay pipe, saying as he did so, "Hand me your 'baccy-box; I'll fill that too, now I am about it." The man went through the movement of searching his pockets. "Lost that too?" said his entertainer, with some surprise.
The sort of man that 'ad always left his baccy-box at 'ome, but always 'ad a big pipe in 'is pocket. He fell overboard off of a lighter one evening, and all that his mates could save was 'is cap. It was on'y two nights afore that he 'ad knocked down an old man and bit a policeman's little finger to the bone, so that, as they pointed out to the widder, p'r'aps he was taken for a wise purpose.
"Here's a thing and a very pretty thing, a baccy-box, or a snuff-box, or a box to shut yer gold money in, or yer diamonds. What offers?" "'And it round," said a black-browed woman, with a basket covered in American cloth no blacker than her eyes. "That I will," said Beale readily. "I'll 'and it round in me 'and. And I'll do the 'andin' meself."
But at the beginning of the evening he formed a good screen for Sylvia, who was rather a favourite with the old man, for twice he spoke to her. 'Feyther smokes? 'Yes, said Sylvia. 'Reach me t' baccy-box, my lass. And that was all the conversation that passed between her and her nearest neighbour for the first quarter of an hour after she came into company.
The sort of man that 'ad always left his baccy-box at 'ome, but always 'ad a big pipe in 'is pocket. He fell overboard off of a lighter one evening, and all that his mates could save was 'is cap. It was on'y two nights afore that he 'ad knocked down an old man and bit a policeman's little finger to the bone, so that, as they pointed out to the widder, p'r'aps he was taken for a wise purpose.
"Arter all, a man can't 'elp winning a prize," ses Bill Chambers, looking round. "I couldn't," ses Bob. He sat down and 'elped hisself out o' Sam Jones's baccy-box; and one or two got up on the quiet and went outside to listen to wot was going on down the road.
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