OLD ENGLISH PIPES. 



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Exhales mundungus, ill-perfuming smoke 

 Not blacker tube, nor of a shorter size, 

 Smoaks Cambro-Britain." 



The form of pipe which found favour in the eyes of 

 the smokers of the reign of Anne and George I. may 

 be seen in our cut on p. 130, or studied in the works 

 of Hogarth. Ben Bradley, the tobacconist, whose por- 

 trait was published in 1737, with the 

 commendatory verses beneath it, printed 

 p. 133, is represented holding the 

 pipe we here engrave. It is of the 

 genuine Dutch form, with a long straight 

 stem, tipped with red wax to prevent the 

 porous clay adhering to the lip. Such 

 long pipes were reverently termed alder- 

 men in the last age, and irreverently 

 yards of clay in the present one.* 

 Pipe-makers seem to have discarded the 

 long Dutch bowl by the middle of the 

 eighteenth centuiy, and to have recurred to the older 

 form ; but adapted it to the increased capacity of the 

 smoker for quantity of tobacco. 



Tobacco-pipes have contributed to amuse non- 

 smokers, by being subservient to ingenious tricks. We 

 are told in the Spectator of "a tavern-keeper who 

 amused his company with whistling of different tunes, 



* Pipes of this kind allow the arm of the smoker to rest with perfect 

 ease on the arm of his elbow-chair, without lifting the hand to steady the 

 bowl. The curved form of the bowl is worth noting as a very distinct 

 feature of the older English and Dutch tobacco-pipe. 



