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NO. 69. TIM BUNKER S REASONS AGAINST 

 TOBACCO 



&quot; Why don t you use tobacco, and raise it like other 

 people, Squire Bunker ?&quot; asked Seth Twiggs one day of 

 me, with a discharge of smoke from his pipe that would 

 have done credit to a locomotive. 



&quot; Because you do !&quot; I replied a little gruffly. 



&quot; Wai, neow, I don t see the peth of that, Squire.&quot; 



&quot; I do. You nee, Seth, you and your farm are a stand 

 ing argument agin tobacco. You are always smoking, 

 smoking, smoking, and you have pretty much smoked 

 your brains out.&quot; 



&quot; You weren t in any particular danger on that pint, 

 Squire.&quot; 



&quot; Well, I admit I m not so smart as some of my neigh 

 bors, and it becomes me to take care of what little brains 

 I have got.&quot; 



11 Jest so,&quot; said Seth. &quot; I see.&quot; 



&quot; Your eyesight is darkened half the time,&quot; I continued, 

 &quot; by that cloud of smoke, and you don t know exactly 

 what you re about. You waste time and money as well 

 as brains. It takes you about one-half the time to load 

 your pipe, and the other half to smoke it. And it is a 

 great deal worse since you have got them big Dutch 

 pipes, with big bowls and crooked stem, than it used to 

 be when you had that old stump of a clay pipe that lasted 

 you five years. Then you only put in a pinch of tobacco, 

 and you had to stop in about ten minutes, to take breath 

 and charge anew. But with these big-bellied things, that 

 hold half a paper of tobacco, you smoke and smoke, and it 

 seems as if you never would stop. You make every place 

 blue, where you go. You go out to feed the pigs in the 

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