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They were by no means all opium-smokers; some of them smoked tobacco, of a vile quality, in metal pipes, with an under-hanging curved portion containing water, through which the smoke passed. The opium-pipe is a quite different thing. It is a reed of about an inch in diameter, and the aperture in the bowl for the admission of the opium is not larger than a pin's head.
I've been making the most discreet enquiries, and I haven't unearthed the vaguest rumour of that tale Major Hunt-Goring told me. I believe it was all his own invention after all." "Very likely," said Will. "Opium-smokers often get delusions." Daisy caught and kissed her husband's hand. "How very charitable of you, Will! You're a perpetual antidote to my poison.
However, we were loath to leave our genial friends for the society of opium-smokers, for we were now in that province of China which, next to Sechuen, is most addicted to this habit. From dusk till bed-time, the streets of the villages were almost deserted for the squalid opium dens.
"Shen-Yan's is a dope-shop in one of the burrows off the old Ratcliff Highway," said Inspector Weymouth. "'Singapore Charlie's, they call it. It's a center for some of the Chinese societies, I believe, but all sorts of opium-smokers use it. There have never been any complaints that I know of. I don't understand this."
Now, no man's got a rite to waste anything, so we fishermen begun to pay sum attention to the opium-smokers in good arnest." Here I interrupted the speaker to ask him if it would be safe for me to travel alone through the fishing-grounds of these Chinese. "Oh, shucks! safe enuf now," he answered. "Once they was a bad set; but a change has cum over 'em they're CIVILIZED now."
'I sleep lightly, as do all old men; but last night I slept unwaking till broad day. Even now I am heavy. 'Drink a draught of hot milk, said Kim, who had carried not a few such remedies to opium-smokers of his acquaintance. 'It is time to take the Road again. 'The long Road that overpasses all the rivers of Hind, said the lama gaily. 'Let us go.
I know how you feel, Doctor! but we must play our cards as they're dealt to us. We must wait wait." Out from the den of the opium-smokers came Zarmi, one hand resting upon her hip and the other uplifted, a smoldering yellow cigarette held between the first and second fingers. With a movement of her eyes she summoned us to join her, then turned and disappeared again through the low doorway.
Most of them are opium-smokers; and their countrymen, with whom they deal, take care to keep them well supplied with this luxury, and obtain many a good bargain from them when under its influence.
There are 180,000 people in Suifu, and, as is the case with Chinese cities, a larger area than that under habitation is occupied by the public graveyard outside the city, which covers the hill slopes for miles and miles. The number of opium-smokers is so large that the question is not, who does smoke opium, but who doesn't.
He lay stretched upon a mat, with small tea-cups beside him, some fruit, a tiny lamp, and several miniature-headed pipes, from one of which he was inhaling the intoxicating smoke. It is said that some of the Chinese opium-smokers consume as much as twenty or thirty grains daily.
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