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At seven o'clock the night shift came in, and Hood borrowed a pipeful of tobacco from him and put on his coat. "Say, Bill, did you feel the shock?" asked the shift, hanging up his hat and taking a match from Hood. "No," answered the latter, "but the statics have put the machine on the blink. She'll come round all right in an hour or so. The air's gummy with ions. Shock, did you say?" "Sure.
I want to go back home, says I. 'I don't care whether Cuba sinks or swims, and I don't give a pipeful of rabbit tobacco whether Queen Sophia Christina or Charlie Culberson rules these fairy isles; and I don't want my name on any list except the list of survivors. But I've noticed you, Sam, says I, 'seeking the bubble notoriety in the cannon's larynx a number of times. Now, what do you do it for?
Will you talk to Mr. Newsome the next time he comes and see what he thinks of the plan? I would tell him about it myself only I I don't know why, but I don't want to." Rose Mary blushed and looked away across the Road, but her confusion was all unnoticed by Uncle Tucker, who was busily lighting a second pipeful of tobacco. "Yes, I'll talk to him and Crabtree both about it," he answered slowly.
One pull at the pipe was worth two dressed sealskins; or a pipeful of the weed, affording two good swallows, cost two deerskins. Only the wealthy could afford such a luxury. "Nanoona" has long since gone to his rest, but his name remains green among the villagers.
Every man, except the cook, who never smoked while at work, was puffing away as if he misdoubted he would ever get another chance for a pipeful in his life.
When he had cleared the platter, he got out a single pipeful of tobacco, just as in the morning, turned round a stool into the chimney corner, and sat awhile smoking, with his back to me. "Davie," he said, at length, "I've been thinking;" then he paused, and said it again. "There's a wee bit siller that I half promised ye before ye were born," he continued; "promised it to your father.
Even murder occurred to him in a vague sort of way. Five days he went without the taste of tobacco he who had smoked all day and thought the night misspent in which he had not awakened for a pipeful or two under the bedclothes. One day a man stopped at the boat to say that there was work to be had in the Bronx Park, where a large number of labourers were required in making some improvements.
It was a good-sized school and when we had them all iced and below more than thirty thousand count it was time for all hands to turn in all but the two men on watch of course. I didn't turn in myself, but after a mug-up and pipeful below came on deck again.
"You see, Pied-Bot," he said, discussing the matter with Peter, while he smoked a pipeful of tobacco in the early evening, "Cassidy thinks we're on our way north, as fast as we can go. He'll hit for the upper end of the Lake and the Black River waterway, and keep right on into the Porcupine country. It's a big country up there, and we've always taken plenty of space for our travels.
But he didn't turn in. He took off his jersey, loosened the collar of his flannel shirt, cast off his slip-shods stopped looked into his bunk, came back, filled and lit another pipeful and began to talk to me. I thought I was sleepy, but in five minutes I didn't think so. Joking, laughing, telling stories in ten minutes he had me roaring.
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