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'Here's a cigar for you, old fellow, and stop that infernal chant. 'There's only five verses more, and I'll sing them for your honour before I light the baccy. 'If you do, then, you shall never light baccy of mine. Can't you see that your confounded song is driving me mad? 'Faix, ye're the first I ever see disliked music, muttered he, in a tone almost compassionate.
'My time would be long before yours, ma'am, you see. This testimony to the youthfulness of his hostess had the effect of stopping her cross-examination. 'There is only one thing more wanted to make me happy, continued the new- comer. 'And that is a little baccy, which I am sorry to say I am out of. 'I'll fill your pipe, said the shepherd. 'I must ask you to lend me a pipe likewise.
A pipe of baccy goes a long way towards taking your thoughts off a bad leg as I found out for myself when I was laid up with an attack of the gout my maternal grandfather bequeathed me."
The Governor enquired as to the amenability of the Australian native to missionary methods of civilisation, and one of the other Ministers broke in with a laugh. 'Bible in one hand and baccy in the other! No, Sir, the Exeter Hall and General Gordon principles aren't workable with our Blacks. Kindness doesn't do. The early pioneers soon found that out.
Moreover, I was used to make a baccy stopper o' that finger, an' it strikes me that the stump'll fit the pipe better than the pint did, besides bein' less sensitive to fire, who knows? Any'ow, Master Jeffry, you've got no occasion to grieve over it so." I felt a little comforted when the good fellow spoke thus, but I could not forgive myself.
No, I didn't give him any impressions. I took a short cut through your dormitories." "I sniffed a whiff of 'baccy, this mornin'. Yours is stronger than Mr. Prout's. I knew," said Beetle, wagging his head. "Good heavens!" said the Reverend John absently. It was some years before Beetle perceived that this was rather a tribute to innocence than observation.
Here, it is too true, a quarrel in hot blood is often followed by a shot or a stroke with the ready poniard; but for this both parties are equally prepared, and resolute to abide the issue: and for the stranger, all he has to do is to keep out of low places of gambling and dissipation, and, if in a large hotel, to keep his door locked; a precaution which would be as much called for at Cheltenham or Spa, were the congregated numbers equally great; although, in the latter places, I admit, the thieves might be nicer men, better dressed, and not chewers of 'baccy.
"Let me go, I say I don't want your blamed chickens; take 'em home again." "Hi! marster, I'se Mehitable. You ain't fergot how peart I use ter wuk w'en you wuz over me in ole marster's day. You know you ain' fergot Mehitable, suh. Ain't you recollect de time ole marster gimme a dollar wid his own han' caze I foun' de biggest wum in de hull 'baccy patch? Lawd! dey wuz times, sho's you bo'n.
He stood there by the railin's a shavin' up a plug o' baccy to put in his pipe. He didn't say a word; but he sort o' took the measure o' that 'are woman with his eye, and kept a follerin' on her. "She had a fine sort o' lively look, carried her head up and shoulders back, and stepped as if she had steel springs in her heels. "'Wal, Tom, what do ye say to her? says Ben Bowdin.
This seemed all fair and reasonable; and as Sponge conned matters over, through the benign influence of the ''baccy, he really thought Facey mightn't be such a bad beggar after all. 'Well, then, said he, as he finished cigar and glass together, 'if you'll give me eight-and-twenty bob, I'll be off to Bedfordshire. 'You'll give me my revenge surely! exclaimed Facey, in pretended astonishment.
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