TOBACCO LEAVES 



THE Dean of Carlisle has been denounc- 

 ing tobacco smoking as pestiferous. Well, 

 we prefer a cloudy atmosphere to a close 

 one. Fun. 



U U U 



WITH many men, cigars supply the in- 

 tellectual vacuum which others ingeni- 

 ously (?) fill up with sighs, shrugs, slan- 

 der, shuffling, silly schemes, vagaries, 

 vicious thoughts, whistling, weeping, wail- 

 ing, beering, and bawling. 



U U TJ 



THAT I won't smoke enny more cigars, 

 only at somebody else's expense. Reso- 

 lution by Josh Billings. Josh represented 

 a very numerous and respectable body of 

 smokers. 



u u u 



The Memory of the Past The first 

 cigar. 



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