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of shot, lie had stood there waiting for his beloved master."* 

 Tobacco smoking, however, can boast of many patrons 

 besides warriors, physicians and statesmen, some of the finest 

 writers of the last three centuries have indulged in the weed. 

 The following extract from the "Australasian" entitled, 

 " Tobacco Smoking " refers to many literary smokers. 



" Burke felt himself precluded from ' drawing an indict- 

 ment against a whole community.' The critical moralist 

 pauses before the formidable array of the entire social world, 

 civilized and savage. The Cockney, leaving behind him the 

 regalias and meerschaums of the Strand, finds the wax-tipped 

 clay-pipe in the parlors of Yorkshire: finds dhudeen and 

 cutty in the wilds of Galway and on the rugged shores of 

 Skye and Mull. The Frenchman he finds enveloped in 

 clouds of Virginia, and the Swede, Dane, and Norwegian, 

 of every grade or class, makes the pipe his travelling compan- 

 ion and his domestic solace. The Magyar, the Pole and the 

 Russian rival the Englishman in gusto, perhaps excel him in 

 refinement ; the Dutch boor smokes finer Tobacco than many 

 English gentlemen can command, and more of it than many 

 of our hardened votaries could endure ; but all must yield, 

 or rather, all must accumulate, ere our conceptions can 

 approach to the German. America and the British colonies 

 round off the picture, adding Cherokees, Redmen and Mon- 

 golians ad libitum. The Jew whether in Hounds ditch, Paris 

 Hamburgh, or Constantinople, ever inhales the choicest 

 growths, and the Mussulman's * keyf ' is proverbial. India 

 and Persia dispute with us the palm of refinement and 

 intensity, but the philosopher of Australia is embarrassed 

 when he asks himself to whom shall I award that of zealous 

 devotion ? 



" Dr. Adam Clarke, who could never reconcile himself to 

 the practice, deemed it due to his piety to find a useful pur- 

 pose in the creation of tobacco by all-seeing Wisdom, and as 

 that discovered by the instincts of all the nations of the 

 planet, and practiced by mankind for three centuries, is 

 wrong, the benevolent Wesleyan of Heydon, applied himself 

 diligently and generously to correct the world, and to vindi- 

 cate its Author. " In some rare cases of internal injury 

 tobacco may be used but not in the customary way.' Be it 



Daring the conquest of Holland, Louvais paid more attention to furnishing tobacco than 

 provisions ; and even at this day, as well as in former times, more care is taken to procure 

 tobacco than bread to the soldier. Every soldier was obliged to have his pipe and Ula 

 matches. 



