TOBACCO LEAVES 



deeds had gone to my heart. He lay on his 

 side, as if asleep, and he and the stranger 

 of the early morning in Tremont Street 

 were one. Bishop Brooks, I understand, 

 used to smoke eighteen and twenty cigars 

 a day. He had the Milmore-Booth nico- 

 tine complexion and eyes. He overdid, 

 too, poor man, and robbed the world of one 

 of its most lovely souls by so doing. 



Colonel Ingersoll was a smoker who 

 knew when to stop. He smoked just so 

 many cigars a day, and beautiful brown 

 ones they were, and they never hurt him. 

 General Grant was a chain smoker; that 

 is, one cigar lit another the day long when 

 he was preserving the Union, and for years 

 after. 



Mr. N. C. Goodwin, our best comediar 

 smokes only cigarettes, with " N. C. G." 

 printed on each cigarette. In the many 

 years that I have known him, I have not 

 seen him smoke a pipe or cigar. His 



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