"There is only one thing more wanted to make me happy," continued the new-comer, "and that is a little baccy, which I am sorry to say I am out of.

" The shepherd filled and handed him a new clay pipe, saying, as he did so, "Hand me your baccy-boxI'll fill that too, now I am about it.

Now give me the baccy, some ink and paper, and an hour's peace.

By Jove, the baccy has all come loose in the saddle-bag!

If I had only had a pipe and some baccy, things would have been more tolerable; as it was there was nothing to do but to sit and shiver and grind my teeth and think about George.

" I stuffed down the baccy with my thumb, and felt in my pocket for a match.

long, slow draught of beer, "that and a pipe o' baccy.

Thus, the harmless stranger who strays on to the staith with a camera is obliged to pay for 'an afternoon's 'baccy' if he want an opportunity to obtain more than a snapshot of a picturesque group.

Though our bivouac-fire has smouldered away, Yet a bit of good 'baccy shall comfort us well; When you sleep in your cloak there's no lodging to pay, And where we shall breakfast the devil can tell!

You must larn to chaw baccy and drink grog, and then you knows all a midshipman's expected to know nowadays.

"Got a pipe o' baccy, mate?"

"Look here," began the soldier; "just because I asked you for a pipe o' baccy" "No offence," said the other, quickly.

I a'most forgot the taste o' beer, and if I could manage to get a screw o' baccy a week I thought myself lucky.

The sort of man that 'ad always left his baccy-box at 'ome, but always 'ad a big pipe in 'is pocket.

And swept it overboard With the precious little hoard Of pipe an' tin an' baccy in the pocket

I'm his guest, eating his grub and drinking his baccy; if he sees fit to tell any lies I back him up, of course.

"Got any 'baccy, Mars' John?"

'Bout as many as der's dam' Yankees in Richmond 'baccy-houses!" Something in Dave's shrewd, whitish eye warned him off.

"We was sitting up 'ere one evening 'aving a mug o' beer and a pipesame as I might be now if I'd got any baccy leftand talking about it, when we 'eard a shout and saw a ragged-looking tramp running toward us as 'ard as he could run.

The pillows were put at feyther's back, the blankets over his knee, his pipe and screw of 'baccy being placed handy on the window-sill; then Tom and Bob withdrew to assume their Sunday suits in preparation for the day, while Mrs. Wainwright and her daughters made the bed and tidied the room.

" "'E-es, Jim, thee 'ull be gettin' all the buns and all the baccy now," cried one of the others, laughing.

A week later Giles was permitted to visit his former friends, laden with such a store of buns and baccy as would have ensured his welcome, even had not most of his cronies been genuinely glad to see him.

but she invariably hastened to add that her heart 'ud be broke out an' out if it wasn't for the taste o' baccy.

"'I'm in a little bit o' difficulty about that gal o' mine,' he ses, passing me his baccy-box.

I says to her, says I, 'Sally,' says I, 'if you'll give yourself hully and whully to the Lord for one week, I'll give you a hounce of baccy,' and she's that wicked, she actilly would not.