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term carottes, which were known in Eng- 

 land by an obscene name, hardly yet 

 obsolete among sailors. Not fifty years 

 ago a story was current in the West In- 

 dies, of a facetious reply given by a sailor 

 to his captain's wife, who, happening to 

 see him employed about some tobacco, 

 asked him what he was going to make of 

 it : " Penem volo fabricart, domtna , sed 

 vereor ne ex illo coleos faciam." This 

 carotte and ball tobacco was cut as re- 

 quired into small pieces on a maple block 

 with a knife, and the pipe shorter and 

 straighter in the stem and more upright 

 in the bowl than those of our own day 

 being filled, was lighted by embers of 

 Juniper wood, taken from a kind of 

 chafing dish by silver tongs. 



PIGS AND SMOKERS. 



" BROTHER G.," said one clergyman to 

 another, " is it possible you smoke to- 

 bacco ? Pray, give up the unseemly prac- 



