cigarette-smokin

Updated: August 3, 2026

"Well, he done sort ob hinted t' me ef we all knowed how de fire done start. I says as how we did, dat we done start it ourse'ves fo' practice, an dat we done expected it all along, an' were ready fo' it. Course I knows dat were a sort of fairy story, Massa Tom, but den dat cigarette-smokin' Frenchman didn't hab no right t' asted me so many questions, did he?" "No, indeed, Rad.

Victor [pseud.] Appleton - Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship, or, the Naval Terror of the Seas