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CHAPTEE VIII 



THE SMOKING-EOOM 



THE subject of the smoking-room would seem to 

 be intimately and necessarily connected with the 

 subject of smoke, which was dealt with in our last 

 chapter. A very good friend of mine, Captain 

 Shabrack of the 55th (Queen Elizabeth's Own) 

 Hussars, was good enough to favour me with his 

 views the other day. I met the gallant officer, who 

 is, as all the world knows, one of the safest and 

 best shots of the day, in Pall Mall. He had just 

 stepped out of his Club the luxurious and 

 splendid Tatterdemalion, or, as it is familiarly 

 called, ' the Tat ' where, to use his own graphic 

 language, he had been ' killing the worm with a 

 nip of Scotch.' 



6 Early Scotch woodcock, I suppose,' says I, 

 sportively alluding to the proverb. 



