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The children arose, glad to escape, while Henrietta felt that her friends were all deserting her, and she was left alone with a wild beast. "Chaw her all up," said one of the boys to another. "I wouldn't be in there with her for a good deal." Rob Riley left the room the last of all, and he lingered under the window. But what could he do?
'Why, Bob, he said, 'I thought the house was a-fire! 'I'm smoking rather fast to drown my reflections, father. 'Tis no use to chaw. To tempt his attenuated appetite the unhappy mate made David cook an omelet and bake a seed-cake, the latter so richly compounded that it opened to the knife like a freckled buttercup.
"It's a protest, signed by seventeen drivers, and says if you start these events with them three old sofy pillers, there, stuffed into plug hats, for judges, we'll take this thing clear up to the Nayshunal 'Sociation and show up this fair management. There, chaw on that!" "Why, bless my soul!" chirruped the Honorable Bickford, "this man seems very much excited.
"You mustn't hold me responsible for your judgment, good or bad." "No, I reckon not, but say, young fellow, do you happen to have a chaw of terbacker in your clothes?" "If I had any I'd offer it to you, but I never chew." The man sighed. "Well, mebbe it's a bad habit," he said, "but it's powerful grippin'. I'd give a heap for a good twist of old Kentucky.
Yet the day was near when the touch of those freckled hands was to seem to me kinder than the breath of flowers, as they bathed my foul-smelling wounds, and she would say, in the words of the old song, "Let me kiss him for his mother," and I should be helpless to prevent her. By and by the man raised his voice: "Why, yo' name is Smith, to be sho'! I thought you was jest a-tryin' to chaw me.
"I see, I see," said the first lieutenant, "your mouth wants overhauling, and your teeth cleaning. I wish we had a dentist on board; but as we have not, I will operate as well as I can. Send the armourer up here with his tongs." When the armourer made his appearance, the boy was made to open his mouth, while the chaw of tobacco was extracted with his rough instrument.
"Go crawl under a wagon an' chaw a bone," he said in a low even voice, "I'll whistle when I want you." For an instant the men's glances locked, while the onlookers held their breath. Purdy was not a physical coward. The insult was direct, uttered distinctly, and in the hearing of a crowd. At his hip was the six-gun with which he had just won a shooting contest yet he did not draw.
What d'ee mane by it, Chok-foo? Didn't I say I'd give you as much baccy as ye could chaw or smoke an ye'd only kape out o' this place? Come along wid ye!" It is perhaps scarcely necessary to say that the man who spoke, and who immediately collared and dragged Chok-foo away, was none other than our friend Rooney Machowl.
"Don't want any kind of a dog not even a litter of good pups or a poodle?" "No, sir." "Well, maybe you could lend me five dollars on that dog. I'll pay you back to-morrow." "Can't do it." "Will you take him as a gift, and give me a chaw of terbacker?" "I don't chew." "Very strange," he muttered, thoughtfully. "There's no encouragement for a man in this world. Sure you won't take him?"
To chew tobacco seemed to me to be manly; so to let the people see I was thus far developed, I prepared me a rough twist of "long green;" this I stuck in my pantaloons pocket, for the occasion, and when everything was propitious in the Sunday-school, I drew out the twist and bit off a "chaw."
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