THAT ain't smokin' tobacco." "What is it, then--asphalt ?" "Why, haw! haw! That's a piece of Ezry's chewin'.

Some he left when he went away.

It's 'Honest Friend.' 'TIS flavored up consider'ble.

And you tried to smoke it! Ho! ho!" The young man joined in the laugh.
"That explains why it bubbled so," he said.

"I used twenty-two matches, by actual count, and then gave it up.