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"I've little doubt about that same," observed Paddy; "and it's a pity we gave them the powther, though I wouldn't grudge them the mate and the 'baccy." "They would scarcely make use of the powder to injure us," I observed. "I wouldn't trust them for that, if they are the gentry I take them for," said Mudge. "However, we must keep a watch, and take care that they don't surprise us."
He had been measuring the cubic contents of the smuggled goods, and the thought of wasting such a gift of the gods fairly stunned him. Had it been cotton, his imagination would not have been touched. But 'baccy! and overboard! It was too much, and he groaned. He was ready with expedients at once. "Why not run it to Holland?" "Can't be done; where's our bill of lading?"
He cast a glance back at the ridge as he seated himself on the turf. "Either of you got a pinch o' baccy?" "Then you aren't afflicted in any way?" exclaimed Nicky-Nan with relief. "But what was the matter with 'ee, just now, that you kept behavin' so comical?" "Got such a thing as a match? . . . Well, I didn' believe it from the first.
I likes a good book myself, an', though I don't care about prayin' or psalm-singin', seein' I don't understand 'em, I say `good luck' to the mission smacks, if it was for nothin' else than the books, an' doctor stuff, an' mitts what the shoregoin' ladies bless their hearts! is so fond o' sendin' to us." "Ay, an the cheap baccy, too, that they say they're a-goin' to send to us," added Freeman.
"We'll jist have to take to farhina and wather," remarked Barney, laying down his paddle and proceeding leisurely to light his pipe. "It's a blissin' we've got baccy, any how. Tis mesilf that could niver git on without it." "I wish you joy of it, Barney. It may fill your mouth, but it can't stop your hunger." "Och, boy, it's little ye know!
"He certainly is a good judge of baccy," the captain remarked, after he had filled and lighted his pipe. "A friend like that is worth knowin', eh?" and he slyly winked at Mrs. Royal. "We have many such friends, I am thankful to say," Mrs. Royal replied, "and we don't have to go to the city for them, either." "No?
By this time too the day was well out; the sky broke with a more cheerful look than for some days back had favoured us, and was hailed by us all with great pleasure. I prepared my 'baccy, and climbed on to the box by the driver, resolute to hold on there as long as possible.
"That's why we shoved along," observed the other, meditatively, as he pulled an empty pipe out of his pocket, and pushed a finger in and out of the bowl. "Tucker a bit scarce along the creek, eh?" Peters asked. "Scarce?" the man replied, "Scarce ain't in it. It's as scarce as gold or 'baccy;" and he put the stem of his pipe between his lips, and made a sound through it to indicate its emptiness.
Then Hulbert, a very quiet chap, says, 'I believe Ben Marston's the oldest man here; let's hear what he's got to say. Father gets up at once, and looks steady at the rest of 'em, takes his pipe out of his mouth, and shakes the baccy out. Then he says 'All on ye knows without my telling what we've come here about, and what there's hangin' to it.
'Why, look ye; this very baccy had a run for 't. It came ashore sewed up neatly enough i' a woman's stays, as was wife to a fishing-smack down at t' bay yonder. She were a lean thing as iver you saw, when she went for t' see her husband aboard t' vessel; but she coom back lustier by a deal, an' wi' many a thing on her, here and theere, beside baccy.
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