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Show 210 TilE ADVJ~.._VTURES OF IIUCKLEBERllY FL1.VY. h ain't got none. Borne of them kinds of loafers never has a cent in th world, nor a chaw of tobacco of their own. They g t all their chawing by borrowing-they say to a fellow, "I wi. ht you'd 1 n' 1n a chaw, Jack, I jist this 1ninute give Ben "GD1.l\1E A (;II A\\'.' Thompson th last chaw I had ''-which i a lie, pretty much every time; it don't fool nobody but a tranger ; but Jack ain't no h·anger, so he says- " You give hitn a chaw, did you? so did your sister'B cat'· grandmother. You pay me back the chaws you ve uwready :.? I l borry'd off'n 1nr, Lafe Buckn r, then I'll l Hln you OlH' or two ion of jt, and won'L clun·g y u no ba k intrust nut her.'' "vrell, l flt(l pay J U back . OlllC of it \YUn."t." " ·y c~, yon did-'bout ix chaws. l .,. ou bon·y d :-.tore to backer and paid back niggcr-h ad." ~tor tobacco is Rn t black plug, bnL t hesc £ 'llow 1110 tl y chaws the natural le<tf twj!'t <'d. \Yhcn they borrow a chaw, 1 hey don,t g '11 rly cut it off \rj( h a knife, but they . et i h ping in between their t 'tb, nnd gnaw ·with th ir t 'th and tug nt the plug ·with th ir ha11ds till they g t it in t wo-thrn ~mncti1nr · t b one that own, the 1 obacco look, mournful at iL when it'.· htUH.led hack, and .·ay~, .. arcastic-- " J[ rr, gin1n1 th chau·, and yon tak, the plnu." All the f't reeL ancllan ":i wa.' ju t 1nncl, they warn t noil 1ing ?lsc bulinud-Jnncl a. black as tnr, and nigh about a foot d 'ep l n sozn pbcc ; and two or thrc(' inc he ., d 'cp jn all the place~. Th hog' lo;1fecl and gruni eel around, YerywlH'res. You cl ce a llllHlcly W anu a litt 'f of pig COITie lazyjug along th .'treet illld whollop her· If right clo\vn in the ·wHy, \vher~ folk · had to \valk nroun:l her, an(l ·h ~'d ·tr 'ich out, and shut h r ye., an<l wave her car:, \vhjlst the pig. wa .. 1uilking her, ancl look as ltappy a if she was on ·alary. And pr tty oon y n d lH'iU' a, loafer ·ing out," J[i! o boy! ~ick hi1n, Tig(~! "and away tlu' ~o\~ "~oulcl go, , qu ·aling 1no.t horribl "\' with a dog or. two .. ·\nng1ng to each car, and three or four doz n 1nor a-c 1nina; an? th n yon would ·ee all the loafer get up and watch ilte tb~ng out of ight, aucllaugh at the fun and look grateful for the 1101 ·e. Then they'd settle back naain till there 1-vns a doo--fight. Tl . ld . . o b tele con n t anyth1ng wake the1n up all over, and 1nake then1 happy a.ll over, like a clog-fight-unle, s it rnight be putting t~lrpeniJne on a. . tray dog and s i ting fire to hi1n, or tying a tin pan to hi ' tail and see hi1n run hin1 elf to death. On the ri rer front so1ne of the hon es was sticking out oYer p 2 |