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SNUFF-TAKERS. 



when travelling through the country and stopping at farm- 

 houses, if I used tobacco as a hint to offer them some, and 

 it was a pleasure to comply, and receive the thankful smile 

 of an appreciative heart." 



In other parts of the country the habit of snuff-taking is 

 confined principally to old ladies, who use any kind, either 

 black or yellow, and who prefer themselves the cheaper kinds. 



SNUFFERS. 



But few varieties are used, and there seems to be but little 

 taste manifested in the selection of the "dust." Foreign 

 varieties are used only to a limited extent, being chiefly con- 

 fined to those of transatlantic birth and tastes. The custom 

 of chewing and smoking seems to be more popular with 

 the male sex than snuff-taking, and one rarely finds a man 

 addicted to the latter habit, unless it be one somewhat 

 advanced in years. 



Stewart in his admirable paper on snuff gives much 

 useful information in regard to the universal custom of 

 using it as well as its origin and distinguished uses of the 

 great sternutatory. 



