TOBACCO LEAVES 



" NOBODY comes whose talk is half as 

 good to me as silence. I fly out of the way 

 of everybody, and would much rather 

 smoke a pipe of wholesome tobacco than 

 talk to any one in London just now. Nay, 

 their talk is often rather an offence to 

 me, and I murmur to myself, why open 

 one's lips for such a purpose." Poor Car- 

 lyle! tobacco was about the only thing in 

 which he took comfort. 



WHAT THE MAN WITH THE BEIARWOOD 



SAYS 



WHEN we see womankind taking to- 

 bacco in the privacy of its own chamber, 

 with its feet on the fender, and " none to 

 supervise ; " more particularly when we 

 see it solacing itself with a pipe, then, but 

 not till then, shall we be forced to admit 



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