SMOKERS' STORIES. 83 



Although, therefore, I shall not decide 

 on the justness of the etymology, I must 

 clearly assent to the truth of the fact 

 asserted by that critic who found its 

 name to be derived from three Hebrew 

 words which, if I recollect aright, were 

 70-Bonus,^r/*-Fumus, ^4-Ejus, " Good 

 is the smoke thereof." 



Gentleman's Magazine (1788). 



EMERSON AND CARLYLE. 



THE friendship formed by these two 

 men at Craigenputtock lasted during 

 their lives. There is an unpublished 

 legend to the effect that on the one 

 evening passed at Craigenputtock by 

 Emerson, in 1833, Carlyle gave him a 

 pipe, and, taking one himself, the two 

 sat silent till midnight, and then parted, 

 shaking hands, with congratulations on 

 the profitable and pleasant evening they 

 had enjoyed. 



