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portance to the real smoker. Pliny observes, 

 '' A man must do all by bis own humour, or 

 another's ; now my stomach is of that nature as 

 to digest what is entirely one or the other, with- 

 out a medium." I could never enjoy smoking 

 when it was in the least offensive to any one : 

 for the olfactory of every man must be re- 

 spected, as a helpless babe or a drunken sailor, 

 who cannot help themselves. And yet how 

 pleasing it is to record that never, in all my life, 

 did I find woman object to the fumes of pipe or 

 cigar. " Is my smoking disagreeable ? " " By 

 no means ! I rather like it." Such have al- 

 ways been the question and answer in my own 

 experience. But I have heard of a wife who had 

 stipulated before marriage that her lord should 

 give up smoking. Time rolled on, and she 

 boasted how much better he looked for giving up 

 the weed ; at last, a friend led her to the top of 

 the house, and through a glass-door she beheld 

 her lord, costumed from head to foot like a 

 Turk, and in beautiful nicotian meditation! 

 " Never mind ! " she exclaimed, " he smokes so 

 gracefully.'^ 



Sir Walter Raleigh's servant cat a different 



