"PUFFS FROM A PIPE." 183 



Why labor to re-word the hackneyed moral, 

 yAAwi>yevq/, as Homer sings? 



For this : Some links we forge are never broken : 

 Some feelings claim exemption from decay ; 

 And Love, of which this pipe was but the token, 

 Shall last, though pipes and smokers pass away.'* 



The verse that has been written in praise as well as dis- 

 praise of the " Indian Novelty" would of itself fill a volume 

 of no " mean pretentions." The following clever lines from. 

 The Tobacco Plant entitled " Puffs from a Pipe," convey 



much advice to all smokers of tobacco. 



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Sage old friend ! with judgment ripe ; 

 Come and join me in a pipe. 



Brother student ! brother joker, 

 Thee I greet, O ! brother smoker. 



Smoke, O ! mon of every station, 

 Every climate, every nation. 



East and West, and South and North, 

 Recognize Tobacco's worth. 



Red man ! let thy warfare cease : 

 Smoke the calumet of peace. 



Chinaman! shun opium-grief : 

 Use the pure Tobacco leaf. 



Frenchmen ! no more foes provoke : 

 Follow arts of peace and smoke ! 



German victors ! crowned with laurel, 

 Smoke, content ; and seek no quarrel. 



Americans no one needs bid 

 To blow a cloud, or take a quid. 



Though rows shake Dame Europa's school, 

 Johnny Bull smokes, calm and cool. 



Toffy, it will ease thy brain, man ! 

 Smoke and snuff, and smoke again, man 1 



