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Updated: May 29, 2025
Failing Timothy there was always Billy Pennell, who would not go for a "Thank you," being a boy of a sordid and miserly manner of thought, but who would go for a cent and chalk the cent up, which made it a more reasonable charge than would appear to the casual observer. So Jabe lighted his corn-cob pipe, and extended himself under a willow-tree beside the pond, singing in a cheerful fashion,
Hatch removed the corn-cob pipe from between his lips and laconically observed: "Well, I know of one lie he's told." "You do?" "Remember him telling us at the supper table one night that a German submarine fired three torpedoes at the steamer he was coming home on with a lot of other sick and wounded?
My companion had several bunches of dry tobacco-leaf among his stores; and a corn-cob with a piece of cane-joint served for a pipe, through which the smoke was inhaled with all the aromatic fragrance of the costliest Havanna. Partly from gratitude for the saving of my life, I had grown to feel a strong interest in the runaway, and his future prospects became the subject of our converse.
He thought nothing of him at first except to remark his clothes, but as he came within short vision Tanner gave a grunt of astonishment and bit through the reed stem of his corn-cob pipe. He recognized the youth as the one he had seen in St. John's and had referred to as the secretary to the president of the Marine Insurance Company.
The window, which the thoughtful architect had designed at least three sizes too large for the room and which admitted the evening air in pleasing profusion, looked out onto a series of forlorn back-yards. In boarding-houses, it is only the windows of the rich and haughty that face the street. On the bed, a corn-cob pipe between his teeth, lay Jimmy Crocker.
Three days later two men were seated face to face in a long wooden house, the largest and most important in Buckomari village. Smoking a corn-cob pipe and showing in his face but few marks of the terrible days through which he had passed was Scarlett Trent opposite to him was Hiram Da Souza, the capitalist of the region.
Viviette left Katherine to her needlework, and advanced to meet him. At her spontaneous act of welcome a light came into his eyes. He removed from his lips the short corn-cob pipe he was smoking. "I've just been looking at the new mare. She's a beauty. I know I oughtn't to have got her, but she was going dirt cheap and what can a man do when he's offered a horse at a quarter its value?"
Why, he had a little fuss with Murphy's Poland rooster here some time back, and instead of going at him and taking the chances of getting whipped, that chicken actually put himself into training, ate nothing but corn, took regular exercise, went to roost early, took a cold bath every morning and got a pullet to rub him down with a corn-cob.
"Goin' to start that house of yours?" "I think not," said Hale. "Well, I'd like to get a contract for a chicken-coop just to keep my hand in." There was more. A two-horse wagon was coming with two cottage-organs aboard. In the mouth of the slouch-hatted, unshaven driver was a corn-cob pipe. He pulled in when he saw Hale. "Hello!" he shouted grinning.
We want to stay and fight on your side, and I'm sure we'd be very useful! Why I'd just as lief command your army as not, and " "Thank you very much," said the Corn-cob Queen, "but what would Captain Jinks say to that? He is in command, you know. And if he should fail me, why the Commander-in-Chief will soon be back from capturing the cat pirates."
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