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Updated: May 29, 2025
The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago. Poor Lazarus there, chattering his teeth against the curbstone for his pillow, and shaking off his tatters with his shiverings, he might plug up both ears with rags, and put a corn-cob into his mouth, and yet that would not keep out the tempestuous Euroclydon.
Mammy glanced from the floor to Ivy's tattered dress, and read the whole story. Outside, across the road, Uncle Billy leaned over his front gate in the deepening twilight, and peacefully puffed at his corn-cob pipe. As the smoke curled up he bent his head to listen, as he had done in the early morning.
But as I knew that these hard names became quite transformed upon their lips, "Carthage" being familiarized into Cartridge, and "Concord" into Corn-cob, how could I possibly tell what shade of pronunciation my friend might prefer for this particular proper name?
Jim had plenty corn-cob pipes and tobacco; so we had a right down good sociable time; then we crawled out through the hole, and so home to bed, with hands that looked like they'd been chawed. Tom was in high spirits.
"Fierce night," said Putnam Jones, removing the corn-cob pipe from his lips. Then, as an after thought: "Sorry I skeert you. I thought you heerd me." "I was listening to the song of the anvil," said Barnes, as the landlord moved forward and took his place beside him. "It has always possessed a singular charm for me." "Special hurry-up job," said Jones, and no more. "Shoeing?" "Yep.
Carville muttered a warning about no smoking "... five hundred dollars fine ... necessary, you see," and I saw his corn-cob no more until we reached his room. "There she is," he remarked, indicating two very red funnels projecting above a roof. "That's the Raritan." A faint smell of petroleum was in the air as we threaded our way among the blue-ended barrels and lengths of oily hose.
After the meal I approached my acquaintance of the year before. "Hello, Powers," I greeted him, "I suppose you don't remember me?" "Sure," he responded heartily. "Ain't you a little early this year?" "No," I disclaimed, "this is a better sight than a birling match." I offered him a cigar, which he immediately substituted for his corn-cob pipe. We sat at the root of a tree.
Since then I have seen an old fox with what looked like a dozen or more field-mice carried in this way; only, of course, the tails were crossed corn-cob fashion instead of the necks. The stealthiness with which a fox stalks his game is one of the most remarkable things about him. Stupid chickens are not the only birds captured.
Each man as he entered divested himself of his wet garments, warmed his hands at the blazing grate- fire, and, reaching over the long table, picked up a clay or corn-cob pipe, stuffing the bowl full of tobacco from a cracked Japanese pot that stood on the mantel.
A corn-cob cigarette closed the banquet, After expressing my thanks, I noticed that the pain of his leg was giving my friend considerable uneasiness, which he was stolidly enduring upon my account rather than appear discourteously anxious to get rid of me.
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