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ferry companies be more considerate in their 

 arrangements for tobacco-votaries than for all their 

 other passengers combined ? 



You go on board a steamer for a pleasant sail, 

 and seat yourself on the deck. Presently you are 

 haunted by that unmistakable odor. Turning your 

 head, you find a person near by, puffing away in 

 serenest complacency. You change your seat. 

 This only brings you into the range of another 

 equally serene offender. Verily, there is no escape. 

 The smokers plant themselves before you and be- 

 hind you and beside you, and no one says them 

 nay. 



A traveller writes : " If I were an artist, and 

 desired to picture absolute selfishness, I would 

 paint a smoker seated on the forward deck of a 

 steamer, his face radiant with that familiar expres- 

 sion of complacency, while his fellow travellers, 

 sickened and disgusted, are trying to shield them- 

 selves from the fumes of his pipe. 



" We spent one of the loveliest days of the past 

 summer in f shooting the rapids ' of the St. Law- 

 rence. Three persons, dressed like gentlemen, 

 seated themselves on the forward part of the boat, 

 and from after breakfast till we reached the dock 

 in Montreal in the evening, they rivalled the fur- 

 nace fires in polluting the balmy atmosphere." 



A lady on a journey fell in with a recently 

 married couple. When the bridegroom saw that 

 the smoke from his cigar annoyed his bride, so 

 that she tried to brush it away, he brought himself 



