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"Dash it! I'm away without my pipe," he said with a show of annoyance. "Can ye len' me yours, Geordie, to get a smoke? I ha'e my tobacco and matches. Ye see," he went on, speaking more rapidly, "I thought I would just slip round to see how ye was keepin'." Andrew knew that Geordie would not have had a smoke for a long time, and this was his way of leaving him with a pipeful of tobacco.
"Come to think av ut, I have a bit av a bump on me own noodle that 'tis like helps to exshplain the cell. But fwhat in the divil's name brung us here in this Gawd-forsaken Nobody's Place? Pass me another pipeful an' tell me that av ye can." The driver passed over the tobacco sack and, stopping his team for another rest, rolled a cigarette for himself. "That's easy," he said.
Can this be possible?" gasped Captain Scraggs. For answer, Mr. Gibney took out his fifty-dollar bill and handed it to to McGuffey. He never trusted Captain Scraggs with anything more valuable than a pipeful of tobacco. "Scraggsy," he said solemnly, "I'm willin' to back my imagination with my cash.
A New Way to Pay Old Debts. After Handy had complacently smoked a pipeful of Fogg's tobacco he laid the comforter aside and started in one of those characteristic chapters of incidents to be found scattered here and there on the pathway of nearly every player who amounts to anything either at home or abroad.
Then some one drew an audible sigh of content; and a kind of dialogue took place though there was but the one voice full of quaint lifts and falls. Garth and Natalie, smiling broadly, listened without shame. "Ah! a fine day, a bellyful of bacon, and a pipeful of tobacco! would you change with a moneyed man, Tom Lillywhite?" "Well I don't know, sir!
But he wouldn't give us credit for a pipeful not for anything. One of these days, I hope, I shall die in the Gate. The Persian and the Madras man are terrible shaky now. They've got a boy to light their pipes for them. I always do that myself. Most like, I shall see them carried out before me. I don't think I shall ever outlive the Memsahib or Tsin-ling.
Fire is made by a tiny percussion-heated particle of the stone as it flies away under the sharp, glancing blow of the "steel" and catches in the dry cotton held by the thumb nail on the upper surface of the stone. If the fire maker wishes to light his pipe, he tucks the smoldering cotton lightly into his roll of tobacco; a few draws are sufficient to ignite the pipeful.
Next morning, after old Lecour had, with a heart full of content, and a pipeful of tobacco, taken his son the round of his warehouses and granaries, his piles of furs, his mountains of wheat, and the rising vaults of what was to be his newest and greatest building, they set off down the village street to the Notary's house.
The old man, having cleared away the things, came and sat down beside us. The present of a fig of tobacco won his heart utterly, and he, having cut up a pipeful, began talking again. "Why," said he, "it's the real Barret's twist the very real article! Eh, master, ye're book-learned: do you ken where this grows?
I'll just take a pipeful" "No, no; shove it in your pocket. I've got more in my swag. Been long in these colonies, Willoughby?" "About a year. I spent two months in Melbourne, and nearly four in Sydney. For the last six months I have been er travelling in search of employment." "You find the colonies pretty rough?" "I do, Collins; to speak frankly, I do.
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