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TOBACCO-PIPES, CIGARS, ETC. 



is here engraved. It was brought up from the bed of 

 the Thames, near Kingston. It is formed of very fine 

 close clay, and there is a polish on the outer surface 

 as if it was thinly enamelled. We have depicted it the 

 full size of the original ; it held a very small quantity. 

 Our second example is somewhat larger, and the dots 

 within show the capacity of the bowl. The edge has a 



milled or indented pattern round it, the heel is broad 

 and marked with an open right hand* The early 

 pipes of Ireland are precisely like this, and their 

 fairy origin has been believed in England as well 

 as in the more poetic sister-island. " These pipes are 

 believed by the peasantry to belong to the Cluricaunes 

 (a sort of mischievous fairy-demon), and when dis- 

 covered are broken or otherwise treated with indignity, 

 as a kind of retort for the tricks which their supposed 

 owners had played off." t A quantity of pipes of this 



* Aubrey describes such pipes as made by one Gauntlet, "who markes 

 the heele of them with a gauntlet, whence they are called gauntlet-pipes:'' 



f Croker's Fairy Legends of Ireland. It was made one of the articles 

 of impeachment against the Earl of Strafford, in 1G40, that he had, when 

 in Ireland, monopolised the trade in tobacco aud pipes. 



