It is an old saying in the town that "most any fellow with a chaw in his jaw can sit on his front porch and spit down the chimney ...of a neighbor's house."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Western hospitality prevails; it is reminiscent of the kind displayed earlier here by a host who said to an unexpected guest, "Str...anger, you take the wold skin and the chaw o' sowbelly--I'll rough it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We found it at last, an' a little shed Where they shut up the lamb at night.... We looked in an' seen them huddled thar, So warm an' sleepy an' white; An' THAR sot Little Breeches an' chirped, As peart as ever you see, "I wants a chaw of terbacky, An' that's what's the matter of me."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »