TOBACCO LEAVES 



he held it up before him, and viewed it 

 with as much admiration as a painter 

 would a picture after he had put the last 

 touch of the brush to the canvas. The 

 cigars which this man was making cost 

 wholesale $1,500 a thousand, packed in 

 inlaid cabinets. 



DAD tells me my pipe will take all the 

 fire of youth out of me. Nonsense; it 

 puts fire in, for the old maxim says, 

 " Where there is smoke there is fire." 



U tT U 



To smoke a fine cigar, after a real din- 

 ner, with a good friend, is about as near 

 " heaven on earth " as the average man 

 will ever find south of the stars. 



u rr u 



THERE are two things a man seldom for- 

 gets his first love and his first smoke. 



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