Smoken

She chewed on a knuckle bone and was silent, looking into the dying fire, till she raised her smokened face, looked at him steadily and said, 'You were born an old soul indeed, as I recall, but I'll thank you to remember that this boy, whom I have come to think of as my own bairn too, is one of the innocents of the world.'

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Steals a large jacket someone left on a chair; steals gulps of O2 from the smokening air; clutches a lost apple and flashlight and gauze; […]

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After a long pause, they smile or grin at each other, this is understood to be the prelude to asking news, and the conversation becomes general after they have smoken a pipe.

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“Mary,” said an old Cumberland farmer to his daughter, when she was once asking him to buy her a new beaver, “why dost thou always teaze me about such things when I’m quietly smoking my pipe?” “Because ye are always best tempered then, feyther,” was the reply. “I believe, lass, thoust reet,” rejoined the farmer; “for when I was a lad, I remember that my poor feyther was just the same; after he had smoken a pipe or twee he wad ha’ gi’en his head away if it had been loose.”

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