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thumb, and striking off the ashes with the little 

 linger. "When they put the cigar into their mouths 

 again, it is with such a nourish, and their heads 

 are thrown back, a little on one side, with so 

 much self-consciousness, their eyes at the same 

 moment cast slily right and left, to see who ob- 

 serves and admires them ! Ah ! this is quite 

 irresistible, and our poor, foolish youngster goes 

 off behind the barn, or into some other out-of-the- 

 way place, and takes the second lesson. All this 

 is carefully concealed from the parents, so ihe 

 tobacco-pupil must go to bed before supper, under 

 pretence of headache. Pretence? It is no sham. 

 He has a racking and splitting headache, with the 

 return of dreadful nausea. In a few Aveeks, more 

 or less, our youngster has learned to smoke or 

 chew, as the case may be." 



All this painstaking and all this suffering vol- 

 untarily endured to make himself the slave of a 

 terrible tyrant ! f 'He little knows that a god more 

 cunning than all the heathen divinities put together 

 has bound him in his spell, and that he is in for a 

 whole life of unspeakable abomination-."* 



CIGARETTES. 



Something should be said as to cigarette-smok- 

 ing, which is becoming so prevalent, and which is 

 thought by many to be quite harmless. A physi- 

 cian, who had strong suspicions on the subject, for 

 his own satisfaction had a cigarette analyzed. The 

 tobacco was found to be strongly impregnated with 



