Generally I lay across my bunk smoking my pipe while Handy Solomon held forth, his speech punctuated by surly speculations from the Nigger, with hesitating deep-sea wisdom from the hairy Thrackles, or with voluminous bursts of fractured English from Perdosa.

Supper over, we cleared the things out of the way, and lit our pipes.

Accordingly he filled a pipe, put on a thick overcoat and a golf cap and went out, leaving word of his return within the hour.

" When he had puffed awhile, Nicholas took his pipe out of his mouth, and, looking at the Boy, said: "You no savvy catch fish in winter?

"Big white cross in middle"he laid down his pipe to personate the cross"here"indicating the other side"here Mother Aloysius and the Sisters.

Then Lister smiled and knocked out his pipe.

The clenched hand of one of them still held an old pipe.

Tisquantum regarded him calmly until he had exhausted his torrent of passionate expostulations, and then, quietly removing the pipe from his lips, he replied, with his and decision 'My brother is angry.

The old man's hands trembled excitedly as he pulled out his pipe and filled it.

" "Three hundred and twenty miles," said the pilot, proud of his general information, and quite ready, since he had got a pipe between his teeth, to be friendly and communicative.

" The motion was carried unanimously, and by way of confirming the decision, we all refilled our pipes and smoked till the stars looked down in their brightness from the fathomless depths of the sky.

'My pipe, Steadman,' he said, looking towards the door; 'bring me my pipe,' and then, impatiently, 'What has become of Steadman?

" The little millionaire puffed his pipe in silence a moment.

"Gentlemen," said Smith to the Doctor and Spalding, as we sat after our meal, enjoying our pipes, "what say you to selling out your interest in that bear?

Then, with a comfortable sigh, he drew out his pipe and lighted it on an ember.

" "I'mtooshleepy," he says, dropping the pipe.

He told me a few months before his death that "they" would not let him sleep at night with crying things at him in Irish, and with playing their pipes.

Then a pipe was put through the wall to carry it offwhich pipe, if it was not masked with an awful head, as the remains of more than one on the Priory showed it would have been in the days of the monks, yet did it work as faithfully without it.

"Camp," said Dillon impassively, resuming his pipe.

Being much addicted to smoking, he generally every day finished many pipes.

" Presently my father gave the pipe to my grandmother, and he took his turn in the exhortations.

" "Why thankee sir," answered Adam, producing the small, black clay pipe from his waistcoat pocket, and accepting Bellew's proffered pouch.

" After some searching, Samuel found the pipe in Abe's hat-box underneath the old man's beaver, and produced from his own pocket a package of tobacco, whereupon the two sat down for a quiet smoke, Samuel chuckling to himself every now and again, Abe modestly seeking from time to time to cover his bare legs with the skirt of his pink-striped night-robe, not daring to reach for a blanket lest Samuel should call him names again.

For a long time the people could hear the pipes.

The messenger enters the wigwam (or teepee, as the houses of the Sioux are called) of the juggler, presents the pipe, and lays the present or fee beside him.