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perfume, which comes from smoking and being 

 smoked in the best company." 



And the heroines of these tales are blandly re- 

 signed, even if they do not actually smile upon the 

 deed. Now, for variety's sake, why can't we have 

 a hero who will none of this, — who always and 

 everywhere eschews the weed? 



Just look back to the degradation to which this 

 luxury of being smoked had brought the Aztec 

 civilization at the time of Spanish discovery and 

 conquest. It may be found in Herbert Bancroft's 

 History of the Native Races, vol. I., page 776, a 

 quotation from Wafer's New Voyage : f? Laying 

 two or three leaves upon one another, they roll up 

 all together sideways into a lon^ Roll, vet leaving 

 a little hollow. Round this they roll other Leaves 

 one after another, in the same manner, but close 

 and hard, till the Roll be as big as one's Wrist, 

 and two or three feet in length. Their way of 

 Smoaking when they were in Company together is 

 thus : A Boy lights one end of a Roll and burns it 

 to a Coal, wetting the part next to it to keep 

 it from wasting too fast. The end so lighted he 

 puts into his mouth and blows the Smoak through 

 the w T hole length of the Roll into the Face of 

 everyone of the Company or Council, tho' there 

 be 2 or 300 of them. Then they, sitting in their 

 usual Posture upon Forms, make with their Hands 

 held hollow r together, a kind of Funnel round their 

 Mouths and Xoses. Into this they receive the 

 Smoak as 't is blown upon them, Snuffing it up 



