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McLean stared and had a slight sense of blushing. "Have a cigarette?" said the leader, over his pie. "Thank yu'," said Lin. "I won't smoke, if yu'll excuse me." He had devised a wholesome meal, with water to drink. "Chewin's no good at meals," continued the boy. "Don't you use tobaccer?" "Onced in a while." The leader spat brightly.
The farmers around there raised considerable tobaccer more'n they did of anything else. The trust had shoved the price so low they couldn't hardly make a living. So they organized and said they would all hold their tobaccer fur a fair price. But some of the farmers wouldn't organize said they had a right to do what they pleased with their own tobaccer.
"'No, thanky, miss, it was swabbed pretty stiddy to the horsepittle, and I reckon a trifle of tobaccer would do more good and be a sight more relishin', ef you'll excuse my mentionin' it. "Harry rushed off and got a great lump and a pipe, and Joe lay blissfully puffing, in a cloud of smoke, when we left him, promising to come again.
But the old man, he says law and order is the main pint. What the country needs, he says, ain't burning down tobaccer warehouses, and shooting your neighbours, and licking them with switches, fur no wrong done never righted another wrong. "But you were in the Ku Klux Klan yo'self," says Miss Lucy.
"Convicted!" snorted Steve. "I heerd old Steve Brayton had hired him to waylay me, 'n' I swar I believe hit's so." "Well, he won't hev to give him more'n a chaw o' tobaccer now," said Gabe. "He'll come purty near doin' hit hisseif, I reckon, ef he gits the chance." "Well, he kin git the chance ef I gits my leetle account settled with ole Steve Brayton fust.
Beauregard, he grinned and rubbed his nose some more, and looked at me like he thought that mewing noise was the smartest sound that ever was made. "Boy," he says, grinning, "bo'n five hours ago. I've done named him Burley after the tobaccer association, yo' know. Yes, SIR, Burley Peoples is his name and he shore kin squall, the derned little cuss!" "Yes," I says, "you better stay with Burley.
"We looked over the rocks and the dirt putty well, too," explained Tom Dillon. "But there wasn't nary a sight o' gold; eh, Abe?" "Not enough fer to buy a plug o' tobaccer with," answered the other miner. As one spot was no better than another apparently, they did not spend much time in looking for a place to camp. In one place was a little rough brush and here the horses were tethered.
Donkin stuck his head out, and it appeared in the yellow light, fragile and ghastly. "I will giv' yer a pound of tobaccer," he whined in a conciliating voice, "so soon as I draw it from aft. I will s'elp me..." Davis swung his arm backhanded and the head vanished. "I'll go," he said, "but you will pay for it." He walked unsteady but resolute to the door.
Some of the peppermints were pink, and some were striped red and white. Cricket supplied herself with six of each. "That makes forty-six cents, doesn't it? I ought to spend the whole of my money," she said, twirling her half-dollar on the counter. "Tobaccer?" queried Billy, quickly, thinking of his other indulgence. "I'd just as lives "
That's her room up there to the top of the house. It's a real nice place, I tell you. They have onions mos' every day. Besides, I saw a little boy here one time when I was comin' 'long with mother, 'n' he was smokin' some tobaccer. He said he'd give it to me for two napples, and mother just wouldn't let me." "Here—a cripple!" exclaimed Joy.
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