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Then he quite calmly dropped the other parcel in its place. He was a little astonished, as he started on again, at the pregnant weight of this new parcel. But he did not stop to investigate. He did not care to gulp and lose the mystery at one swallow. He scurried off with it, chucklingly, like a barnyard hen with a corncob, to peck at it in solitude.
She snatched the corncob pipe and tobacco pouch, and sped back again in a strange blending of fear and hope. She felt guilty that she could dare hope to see him, a Yankee, again. "But his smile was so pleasant and frank!" she murmured.
And so we were all made glad and the conical peak had a name. Pete told me that we should have to cut the ridge to the south of Corncob Hill, taking a rather wide detour to reach the place. A chain of lakes would help us, but some long portages were necessary and it would require several days' hard work. This we did not mind now.
He was a fat, comfortable-looking fellow, as he sat in tailor-fashion on the little wharf, smoking a corncob pipe as unconcernedly as though he had nothing to do all day but enjoy tobacco. Watson approached the man. "We want to get across the river as soon as possible," he explained, pointing to his companions. The ferryman took his pipe from his mouth and regarded the party quizzically.
No corncob pipe is fit for anything until it has been used at least a fortnight." "How do you break in a pipe, then?" asked Bok. "That's the trick," answered Mark Twain. "I get a cheap man a man who doesn't amount to much, anyhow: who would be as well, or better, dead and pay him a dollar to break in the pipe for me.
Flop got his corncob cakes first, and as Curly had to wait for the milk to get sour he said to his brother: "Now, Flop, you hurry back with Uncle Wiggily's cabbage and carrots, and I'll soon come with my sour milk." "Won't you be afraid?" asked Flop, for the woods were now quite dark. "Afraid! Nonsensicalness no!" exclaimed Curly, "and a bouquet of wild flowers besides. Run along."
After that Virginia took long drives with her father, and coming home, they would sit in the summer house high above the Merimec, listening to the crickets' chirp, and watching the day fade upon the water. The Colonel, who had always detested pipes, learned to smoke a corncob. He would sit by the hour, with his feet on the rail of the porch and his hat tilted back, while Virginia read to him.
The front wall of the hut was literally covered with the pegged-up skins of foxes, raccoons and what were described to Kenneth as the hides of "linxes," but which, in reality, were from the catamount. A tall, bewhiskered man, smoking a corncob pipe, leaned upon the rail fence, regarding the strangers with lazy interest. Kenneth drew rein and inquired how far it was to Lafayette.
The prevailing local contempt for any man who was too timid to "put up a gun fight" when the etiquette of a situation demanded it, was expressed locally in the phrase that one "could take a corncob and a lightning bug and make him run himself to death trying to get away."
Then he turned softly and went back to his job in a life insurance office. As for ourself, we then poured out another tumbler, lit a corncob pipe, and meditated. Falstaff once said that he had forgotten what the inside of a church looked like.
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