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makers. Another may be considered as a satire on 

 smoking in bed, a frequent practice with smokers on 

 the Continent; another is whimsically formed in the 

 fashion of a steam-engine, the funnel with perfect 

 propriety carrying-off the smoke. A grotesque head, 

 in one instance, lolls out a long red tongue, to attract 



a green lizard, which creeps along the stem, unaware of 

 the " ant-eater " trick about to be played on it. In 

 another instance the denizens of the woods are 

 enjoying themselves with a dance under the trees; the 

 Monkey who has seen the World being arrayed in the 

 last French fashion, and capering to the music of the 

 hare seated on the stem, who plays his clarionet with 

 much gusto. * 



AVhen a nation is so much enraptured by La Gloire 

 militaire as France, we must expect to find the 

 popular taste catered for. Hence pipes founded on 

 military subjects abound. Napoleon le Grand of 

 course appears, and so do popular commanders. Many 



* These figures on the stem are "contrived a double debt to pay," they 

 are useful as well as ornamental, and afford finger-hold to the smoker, and 

 prevent the pipe from slipping. 



