TOBACCO LEAVES 



" AH, sir, it is no lie, but a blessed truth, 

 as I can tell, who have ere now gone, in 

 the strength of the weed, three days and 

 nights without eating; and therefore, sir, 

 the Indians always carry it with them on 

 their war-parties. And no wonder! for 

 when all things were made, none were bet- 

 ter than this to be a lone man's com- 

 panion, a bachelor's friend, a hungry 

 man's food, a sad man's cordial, a wakeful 

 man's sleep, and a chilly man's fire; while 

 for stanching of wounds, purging of them, 

 and settling of the stomach, there's no 

 herb like it under the canopy of heaven ! " 

 KINGSLEY'S " Westward Ho." 



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ONE of Louis XVIII.'s secretaries of 

 state was once with the king in the cabinet 

 of the latter. Affairs of importance had 

 to be debated and decided. So earnest in 

 discourse grew the secretary that, without 



