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TOBACCO-PIPES, CIGARS, ETC. 



Then let non-smokers rail for ever ; 

 Shall their hard words true friends 

 Pleasure's too rare to cast away 

 My pipe, for what the railers say ! 



"When love grows cool, thy fire still warms me. 

 "When friends are fled, thy presence charms me ; 

 If thou art full, though purse be bare, 

 I smoke, and cast away all care ! 



| The Persians speedily invented the luxurious mode 

 of drawing the tobacco-smoke through water, and so 

 cooling it, before it was in- 

 haled. It is to smoking what 

 ice is to Champagne. Nean- 

 der in his Tabacologia (1622) 

 engraves two specimens of 

 these pipes, one of which we 

 copy. The tubes, he says, are 

 made of gold or silver for 

 the rich, and of ordinary 

 metal for the poor. The to- 

 bacco is burned in the cup a; 

 the smoke drawn through the 

 perforations at b ; the cup is 

 fitted in another at c, to which 

 is attached a hollow tube 

 which descends to the bottom of the glass vase; abroad 

 saucer, d, prevents ashes or sparks falling on carpets or 

 the floor ; e is the cap which fits over the mouth of the 

 glass, and is held firm by a screw f. The pipe g is used 

 for inhalation ; it does not quite touch the water, and 

 as it is used it produces a vacuum, which induces the 



