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at her ample person; "then, madam, I must say, 

 madam, " " Sir, sir, are you going to be rude ?" " I 

 must say, madam," he continued, "you are the greatest 

 tobacco-stopper in all England." Of the clergy, Whatley 

 was one of the greatest in intellect, and, as a smoke^ 

 was devotedly attached to tobacco ; his pipes, when out, 

 served him for a book-marker. In summer-time he might 

 be seen, of an evening, sitting on the chains of Stephen's 

 Green, thinking of " that," as the song says, and of much 

 more, while he was "smoking tobacco." In winter he 

 walked and smoked, vigorously in both cases, on the Donny- 

 brook road ; or he would be out with his dogs, climbing up 

 the trees to hide amid the branches a key or a knife, which, 

 after walking some distance, he would tell the dogs he had 

 lost, and bid them look for it and bring it to him. 



Of many warriors, none have been more devoted to the 

 plant than Napoleon, Frederick of Prussia and Bliicher the 

 Bold. The following anecdote of the latter is one of the 

 best of its kind : " As is well-known, Field-Marshal Bliicher, 

 in addition to his brave young 'fellows' (as he called his 

 horsemen), loved three things above all, namely, wine, 

 gambling, and a pipe of Tobacco. With his pipe he would 

 not dispense, and he always took two or three puffs, at least, 

 before undertaking anything. ( Without Tobacco, I am not 

 worth a farthing,' he often said. Though so passionately 

 fond of Tobacco, yet old ' Forwards ' was no friend of costly 

 smoking apparatus ; and he liked best to smoke long, Dutch 

 clay pipes, which, as everybody knows, very readily break. 

 Therefore, from among his ' young fellows ' he had chosen 

 for himself a Pipe-master, who had charge of a chest well 

 packed with clay pipes ; and this chest was the most precious 

 jewel in Bliicher's field baggage. If one of the pipes broke, 

 it was, for our hero, an event of the greatest importance. 

 On its occurrence, the 'wounded' pipe was narrowly 

 examined, and if the stem was not broken off too near the 

 head, it was sent to join the corps of Invalids, and was called 

 4 Stummel ' (Stump, or Stumpy). One of these Stumpies the 



