TOBACCO LEAVES 



Hazlitt, Coleridge, Lamb, and a few oth- 

 ers discussed Shakespeare's genius, and a 

 layman gave it out, after lingering for 

 two hours, that, in his opinion, " That 

 Shakespeare was a very clever man ! " 

 Then Charles arose, with a lighted candle, 

 and gravely examined that chap's bumps. 

 Lamb was a great jo smoker. 



But the greatest smoker that I have yet 

 to meet was Nero. He smoked a city. 



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