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1. Tobacco (continued)

   

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   in it. After some time I took it out of my mouth again and I would give an odd look over the man smoking beside me at his heart's content. I was nearly out of my mind and I couldn't bring myself to ask him for a pipeful of tobacco no matter what. I suppose he began to notice things when he saw me put the pipe in me mouth and take it out several times. He looked at me for a long time and then says he "Have you no tobacco?" "I haven't" said said I, "Would you mind if I gave you a bit" says he. "Would I what?" says I. He had tobacco in a little bag in his pocket and he pulled it out and gave it to me. I filled my pipe with it and took out the matches and lit it and begor I smoked away like the divil for about ten minutes, and I was so mad for a smoke that it came out in my ears and eyes and nose and every possible place it could come come out in. When all

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   History Edit

   Date

   28 December 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Informant

   • Seán Dake