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Such excitement is all I'm in lack o', 



And the poetic vein soon to fancy gives reign, 



Inspired by a pipe of Tobacco. 



" And when with one accord, round the jovial board, 



In friendship our bosoms are glowing ; 



While with toast and with song we the evening prolong, 



And with nectar the goblets are flowing ; 



Still let us puff, puff be life smooth, be it rough, 



Such enjoyment we're ever in lack o' ; 



The more peace and goodwill will abound as we fill 



A jolly good pipe of Tobacco." 



The tobacco jar is another accessory of more recent date 

 than tobacco pipes but interesting from the varieties of style 



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and shapes. The finest are made of porcelain and are lavish 

 in design and enrichment. Of all the articles of the smokers' 

 paraphernalia none however exhibit more fanciful designs 

 than Tobacco-stoppers used by smokers for crowding the 

 tobacco into the pipe while smoking. The author of "A 

 Paper of Tobacco " says : 



" This was the only article on which the English smoker 

 prided himself. It was made of various materials wood, 

 bone, ivory, mother-of-pearl, and silver : and the forms which 

 it assumed were exceedingly diversified. Out of a collection 

 of upwards of thirty tobacco-stoppers of different ages, from 

 1688 to the present time, the following are the most remark- 

 able : a bear's tooth tipped with silver at the bottom, and 

 inscribed with the name of Captain James Eogers of the 



