TOBACCO LEAVES 



leaf, but the best grades contain as many 

 as nineteen different kinds of the finest 

 selected Turkish tobaccos. 



A BOY'S ESSAY ON TOBACCO 



TOBACCO grows something like a cab- 

 bage, but I never saw one cooked, though 

 I have heard men say that cigars given 

 them on election day were mostly cabbage 

 leaves. Tobacco stores are mostly kept 

 by wooden injuns, who stand at the door 

 and fool little boys by offering them a 

 bunch of cigars, which is glued into the 

 Injun's hands, and is made of wood also. 

 I tried to smoke a cigar once and I felt 

 like Epsom salts. 



Tobacco was invented by a man named 

 Walter Raleigh. When people first saw 

 him smoking they thought he was a steam- 

 boat and was frightened. My sister 

 Nancy is a girl. I don't know whether 



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