78 SMOKERS' STORIES. 



these, he would smoke until it was empty, 

 break it in twain, and throw the fragments 

 into another box prepared for their recep- 

 tion. Then he pulled another pipe from 

 its straw or wooden inclosure, filled it, 

 lighted it, and destroyed it as before. He 

 would not smoke a pipe a second time. 

 Meanwhile, high discourse went on, inter- 

 rupted not seldom by the poet's reading 

 select passages from the manuscript which 

 was as yet scarcely dry. So the hours were 

 whiled delightfully away until it was time 

 to stroll on the cliffs or dress for dinner. 



TOBACCO IN NORTH 

 AMERICA. 



MR. FAIRHOLT gives the following 

 version of the Indian tradition as to its 

 first appearance in North America : " A 

 Swedish minister who took occasion to 

 inform the chiefs of the Susquehanna 

 Indians, in a kind of sermon, of the prin- 

 cipal historical facts on which the Chris- 



