VARIOUS MODES OF FILLING A PIPE. 99 



forward to some high ground, an offshoot of the ridge 

 on which I was. I saw neither of the dogs from this 

 elevated position, and, provoking on such occasion, 

 neither of them at any time gives tongue. Well, I 

 might as well be here as anywhere else : a pretty view 

 is stretched before me, a fine wide placid stream, an 

 immense meadow, and in the far distance a few white 

 cottages, and our wagons cannot go down the acclivity 

 in front of me without my seeing them. 



Thus feeling secure in every sense, I jumped off 

 my horse, knee -haltered him, gave him a slap on the 

 rump, and told him to make the best use of his time. 

 Taking out my pipe, I quietly and studiously filled it. 

 There are, gentle reader, different ways of filling a pipe, 

 and each manner denotes whether the filler is in a 

 hurry or the reverse, meditative or angry. I have filled 

 a pipe when I have heard dogs running and expected a 

 shot promptness was the object then to be obtained ; 

 therefore you do not think of the ash that is in it, that 

 will probably impede the draught, but press the bowl 

 into your pouch, shove your finger after the load to 

 keep the tobacco in its place, and so the operation is 

 performed. If not in a hurry, you fill it with precision : 

 clean out the bowl first, place every layer of tobacco in 

 position, and are careful to leave no surplus of the 

 nicotian weed. Meditatively filling a pipe is a slow 

 process ; and after having completed it you find, through 

 your mind being intent on other matters, that so much 

 tobacco overtops the bowl, that when you attempt to 

 light it, the first puff of wind carries all the burning top 

 away, and another fusee or match is wanted. But the 

 angry process is dig out your pipe, and probably put 

 the point of your knife through the bottom of the 



