'You surprise me.

Ain't you 'fraid of catchin' somethin' in this ha'nt of sin?
Have a chair, anyhow.

And a cigar, won't you ?' "I took the chair, but I steered off from the cigar, havin' had experience.

Told him I guessed I'd use my pipe.

He chuckled.
"'Fur be it from me to find fault with your judgment,' he says.
'Terbacker does smoke better'n anything else, don't it.' "We set there and puffed for five minutes or so.