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Updated: June 8, 2025
'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.
What with poling, and shoving, and pulling at the rope, the nuggar was floated once more at last, and on they went again, and by-and-by the river widened, and the current was not so strong, and so long as they kept the rope pretty taut the boat came along without any very great exertion. "Have a pipe out of my baccy-box, just to show there's no malice?" said Grady to Tarrant.
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.
"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!
"Among other voices, I recognised that of Abraham Coxe. `My poor mate is killed, and eaten by the bears, says he; `but I may as well have his knife, and his baccy-box and buttons, if they ain't eaten too. "`No, I ain't eaten nor dead either, you cowardly rascal, and I hope a better man nor you may have my traps when I do go, I sings out, for I was in a towering rage at being deserted.
As luck would have it, I shipped aboard the Fair Rosamond; and now, as death is hauling away at the tow-line, and I have no chance of fulfilling my promise, if you wish to do me a service and keep my soul quiet, you'll promise to take the message to Captain Tracy and the bit of paper in my 'baccy-box; I'll leave that to you, and everything else I've got on board.
"Speaking of knives," said another, "why don't we find his'n lying round? Flint warn't the man to pick a seaman's pocket; and the birds, I guess, would leave it be." "By the powers, and that's true!" cried Silver. "There ain't a thing left here," said Merry, still feeling round among the bones, "not a copper doit nor a baccy-box. It don't look nat'ral to me."
Halliday said that he was not hungry; but I knew that he would be before long, when he would be singing out for food. "When you are, sir, say so," said Ben. "I shoved a biscuit into my pocket at tea-time last night; and I have got three or four quids in my baccy-box, so that I shall not want it." "Thank you, but I cannot take it from you," answered Halliday.
You been with a Frenchman hob and nobbing, and you don't even know how they pronounce themselves, unchristian as it is to do so. 'Jarks' were his name, the very same as Navy beef, and a common one in that country. But to speak of any Carne coming nigh us with French plottings, and of prawns landing here at Springhaven 'tis as likely as I should drop French money into the till of this baccy-box.
"`But maybe Captain Tracy won't believe me? says I. `If he doesn't, his daughter will; and to make sure, take this bit of paper and show it them, he replied. He wrote two letters on it; it was but a scrap, but it was the only piece he had. I put it in my 'baccy-box to keep it safe.
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