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Waco 105

It was on one of these outings that I realized I had been a "deceived" woman, and loved it! That dayin Lorain, when I surprised the boys while they were working on the "aco-Cootie, George had been chewing tobacco. Knowing my sentiments on the subject (to which he agreed) he had promptly swallowed the tobacco. Clayt's remark, that I didn't hear, and George's expression had caused Sam's mirth.
Another story that was often told, butnews to me, was the means by which Sam and George kept in tobacco in Lorain, when they had no money. Sam left early one dark morning, without Clayt, and George had gone even earlier, two things that should have aroused my suspicions. There had been many visitors the day before, and it was the memory of this visit of "smokers" that caused the early rising. Sam eased himself into the shop quietly, saw no one, took a piece of scratch paper, opened it, laid it on a bench so he could put the tobacco from the many butts that strewed the floor, in it, and use it for his pipe or roll his own. 
Just as he stooped down for the first few butts, who should he see but George, under a bench reaching for an especially elusive butt, to add to the handful he already had: Sam said alltheycould do was look at each other. George said very seriously, "Sam to think you, a swell fellow like you, could stoop so low. Why, what are you coming to?" They both guffawed loudly, with the result they made a "gentlemen's agreement" to share all tobacco donated unwittingly in the future by visitors. They provided a special receptacle for such salvage; consoling themselves that all contamination was removed from tobacco and soul, in the resultant burning satisfaction. George had always said that he preferred to think that "All the good, rather than evil, that men do lives after them." As I listened to the story, I had to laugh, and swallow a few tears, for such "stooping" lived long after George [[crossed-out]] did [[\crossed-out]], (or Sam) did.
I loved to go to the tool shop with Sam. He would take some expecially fine tool and warm it with his flow of words into an integral part of building,