48 AUTHOR NO SMOKER. 



copious expectoration in which they seem delightedly to 

 revel, to the misery ajid disgust of all their fellow-crea 

 tures who happen to be near them, is detrimental to their 

 digestive organs, through the waste of the gastric juices, 

 and that the citizens, if they took a turn for soldiering in 

 foreign countries, would never live through a long cam 

 paign. Several of my friends in England advised me 

 (though they knew that I never smoked a cigar) to be 

 sure to take to the desert a good store of tobacco, and 

 they smiled at the idea of my being able to do without it. 

 I never touched either cigar or pipe, and when I saw the 

 condition to which the inveterate smokers and chewers 

 of tobacco in the United States were reduced, when ex 

 posed to the terribly uncertain climate on the plains, or 

 under violent exercise, I never could have been better 

 pleased than I was with the abstinence from tobacco of 

 any kind in which I had ever persisted. 



It will, I am sure, amuse my readers in both countries 

 when I give them a few of the cautions received by me 

 from my supposed-to-be- " experienced friends " in Eng 

 land, on the eve of my departure from the old country. 

 For brevity's sake I make out the following list of kindly- 

 intended but not very practicable advice. 



" When you get to America, all you will have to do is 

 to attach yourself to some trappers going to the desert, 

 do as they do, take no tent, no waggon, no knife and 

 fork, no attempt at any better fare than they have, for 

 they will despise you if you do, and while you are buffalo 

 hunting, they will, with their hatchets, build you a com 

 fortable hut with leaves and the boughs of trees, and then 

 you '11 all dine and smoke together round a fire ! 



" You will find buffalo a few days' journey beyond New 

 York, qnd elk and deer in any quantities ; and if you can 



