TOBACCO LEAVES 



it does not appear that the pipe was made 

 of expensive materials. Bishop Bonner, 

 who was much given to the pipe, however, 

 and died in 1596 at the Golden Lion Inn, 

 Fulham, while sitting in his chair smok- 

 ing, was supposed to have been the owner 

 of some valuable pipes. One of these 

 pipes was found, after the place was pulled 

 down, in the wainscot of the room in which 

 the bishop died. It was an old pipe of 

 quaint design done in brass. It must have 

 been the bishop's. At any rate, it has been 

 catalogued as the " Bishop's Own " in a 

 local museum. A glance at the business 

 methods of those times shows that they 

 were no more virtuous then than now. 

 From Ben Jonson's comedy of " The Al- 

 chemyst," we infer that tobacconists soon 

 learned to adulterate and flavour the weed 

 with foreign substances. Captain Face, 

 one of the characters in the play, furnishes 



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