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Soldiers had been about her ever since she first remembered having a wooden casserole for a cradle, and sucking down red wine through a pipe-stem. Soldiers had been her books, her teachers, her models, her guardians, and, later on, her lovers, all the days of her life.
Then I asked him whether these birds of Halyard's were really great auks, and he replied, somewhat indifferently, that he supposed they were at least, nobody had ever before seen such birds near Port-of-Waves. "There's something else," he said, running, a pine-sliver through his pipe-stem "something that interests us all here more than auks, big or little.
So you see, gentlemen, what a snow-bound train may mean, for if an old sea tale, a broken pipe-stem " The door at the end of the smoking-room opened suddenly. Through it there came a cold blast of the storm, a cloud of snow, and a man. He was bundled in a great bearskin coat, and as he shook out its folds his strong, ruddy face smiled cheerfully at those whom he had interrupted.
There are several forms of Italian paste, but the composition is almost identical, all being made from the interior part of the finest wheat grown on the Mediterranean shores: the largest tubes, about the size of a lead pencil, are called macaroni; the second variety, as large as a common pipe-stem, is termed mazzini; and the smallest is spaghetti, or threads; vermicelli comes to market in the form of small coils or hanks of fine yellowish threads; and Italian paste appears in small letters, and various fanciful shapes.
"I should think he might put his toes through one of those in an hour or two," he suggested. "His legs are pretty thin. Do you think pipe-stem legs in short socks, to say nothing of bruises and scratches, really attractive?" "You want him to go barefooted a good deal of the time, don't you?" "Sure. But legs in socks are neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring, to my thinking."
But of course one cannot make a pipe-stem out of a cigarette-holder all at once. The thread you wind round the screw has a disappointing way of coming undone, when down falls the bowl, with an escape of sparks. Twisting a piece of paper round the screw is an improvement; but, until you have acquired the knack, the operation has to be renewed every time you relight your pipe.
"By marriage, Peter, an' 'ard work! an' they allus goes together." "Marriage!" said I. "Marriage as ever was, Peter." "There I don't agree with you," said I. "That," retorted the Ancient, stabbing at me with his pipe-stem, "that's because you never was married, Peter." "Marriage!" said I; "marriage brings care, and great responsibility, and trouble for one's self means trouble for others."
He spoke, chewing his pipe-stem meditatively the while: 'Go forth, return in glory, To Clusium's royal 'ome: An' round these bloomin' temples 'ang The bloomin' shields o' Rome. You better go. You ain't like to shoot yourself not while there's a chanst of liquor. Me an' Learoyd'll stay at 'ome an' keep shop 'case o' anythin' turnin' up.
He flung the length of knotted cord to one of the negroes, who in an instant made it fast about the prisoner's brows. Then between cord and cranium the black inserted a short length of metal, round and slender as a pipe-stem. That done he rolled his eyes towards Levasseur, awaiting the Captain's signal.
"You shall lend me an inch off your pipe-stem," said I, and, to tease Nat, began to hum the senseless old song: "She has ta'en a siller wand An' gi'en strokes three, An' chang'd my sister Masery To a mack'rel of the sea. And every Saturday at noon The mack'rel comes to me, An' she takes my laily head An' lays it on her knee, An' kames it wi' a kame o' pearl, An' washes it i' the sea "
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