That's it, it ?" "It must be manly, if men do it," Alf argued.
"You funny little shaver," laughed Tom, good-humoredly.

"So you think that, when men see you smoking cigarettes, they immediately imagine you to be one of them?
Cigarette-smoking, for a boy of fourteen, is the short cut to manhood, I suppose." Tom laughed long, heartily, and with intense enjoyment.

At last he paused, to remark, soberly: "Answering your first question, Drew, I haven't the 'makings.' I never did carry them and never expect to." "What do you smoke then ?" queried Alf, in some wonder.

"A pipe ?" "No; I never had that vice, either.

I don't use tobacco.