string-bound

Updated: August 11, 2026

Mitchell's pipe would have smoked out Old Nick; it was an ancient string-bound meerschaum, and strong enough to kill a blackfellow. I had one smoke out of it, once when I felt bad in my inside and wanted to be sick, and the result was very satisfactory. Mitchell looked through his old pocket-book more by force of habit than anything else and turned up a circular from Tattersall's.

Henry Lawson - Children of the Bush