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your master to send in some of his best 

 small-still whisky of the same kind as that 

 which he filled my flask with this morning 

 and bring in a light and hot water when 

 you return. 



Reed. South country folks are always 

 friends to the candle-maker ; they are never 

 easy till they see a pair of blinking candles 

 on the table, and the curtains drawn, even 

 though there should be a streak of bonny 

 clouds in the west, enough to make a sor- 

 rowful heart glad with looking at them. O, 

 I see what you mean now. That would be 

 an excellent box to keep gentles in, if the 

 rolls of dirty weed were thrown away. You 

 should carry a few baits occasionally among 

 your cigars, if it were only to try whether 

 the trouts liked the flavor or not. I dare 

 say it would prove as tempting as some of 

 the old scents formerly in such repute. 



Oliver. The gentles might be all the better 

 for it, but the flavor of the Havannahs would 

 not be improved. Though I cannot help 



