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THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN.

he ain't got none. Some of them kinds of loafers never has a cent in the world, nor a chaw of tobacco of their own. They get all their chawing by borrowing—they say to a fellow, "I wisht you'd len' me a chaw, Jack, I jist this minute give Ben two men, one sitting on a barrel
"GIMME A CHAW."

Thompson the last chaw I had"—which is a lie, pretty much every time; it don't fool nobody but a stranger; but Jack ain't no stranger, so he says—

"You give him a chaw, did you? so did your sister's cat's grandmother. You pay me back the chaws you've awready