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Thus, the harmless stranger who strays on to the staith with a camera is obliged to pay for 'an afternoon's 'baccy' if he want an opportunity to obtain more than a snapshot of a picturesque group.
"The mounseers must be in a precious hurry to catch us, if they do catch us," exclaimed Job Truefitt. "Give way, mates: if we can't keep ahead of a crew of frog-eaters, we desarves to be caught and shut up in the darkest prison in the land, without e'er a quid o' baccy to chaw, or a glass o' grog to freshen our nip." The men, however, required no inducement to exert themselves to the utmost.
Why, bless you, there's many a young feller in this fleet as don't want no grog especially the vile, fiery stuff the copers sell 'em; but when the Dutchmen offers the baccy so cheap as 1 shilling 6 pence a pound, the boys are only too glad to go aboard and git it.
He added, with another glance at his relative, "Charles, you ought to bant. It's beginning to affect your wind." "Beginning! Your memory's going, Bromfield. But they say there's a new system that allows you to eat everything. I'm waiting for that. In the meantime, I've gone back to my baccy." "They've cut mine off," sighed the other. "Doesn't it affect your heart?" "Not a bit.
He seized Gunter's fist as he spoke, and gave it a shake so hearty and powerful, that he almost hurled that lover of cheap grog and baccy overboard. "Hold on, skipper!" growled the fisherman, who was for a moment uncertain whether to return the friendly grasp or fight; but the fierce, wild, contemptuous laugh with which David Bright concluded the speech decided him.
"In the first place, how came you to be in London? In the second, how did you ever get so far along Oxford Street? In the third, being here, won't you come up to the painting-room? I'll show you my sketches; I'll give you some 'baccy I haven't forgot Iffley Lock and your vile habit of stopping to drink. I can even supply you with beer! We'll have a smoke, and a talk over old times."
"I've forgot to fetch mine." "Here you are," said Dale, offering him a piece of twist. "Han't ye got a bit o' hard baccy for the tooth?" said Rags. "Will that do?" asked Frank Willders, cutting off a piece from a plug of cavendish. "Thank'ee. Good afternoon." Young Rags put the quid in his cheek, and went away humming a tune.
The fumes of burning shag sharpened the tooth of desire. Kirkwood stood it as long as he could, then surrendered with an: "If you've got any more of that tobacco, Captain, I'd be glad of a pipe." An intensely contemplative expression crept into the captain's small blue eyes. "I only got one other pyper of this 'ere 'baccy," he announced at length, "and I carn't get no more till I gets 'ome.
No man ever yet imagined a new thing only some variation or extension of an old thing. The sailor, when he was asked what he would do with a fortune, promptly replied: "Buy all the rum and 'baccy there is in the world." "And what after that?" they asked him. "Eh?" "What would you buy after that after you had bought up all the rum and tobacco there was in the world what would you buy then?"
"It seems a jolly old pipe," he said; "I fancy you must be rather fond of it. Has anyone got any 'baccy?" Five pouches were tendered instantly. Satherwaite filled his pipe carefully. He had won the first trick, he told himself, and the thought was pleasurable. The conversation had started up again, but it was yet perfunctory, and Satherwaite realized that he was still an outsider.
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