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drunkard. "If you will give up your snuff, I 

 will give up my rum." The minister assented ; 

 but within two days was in agonies for his idol. 

 Setting a watch over the drunkard, the moment he 

 learned that the cup had passed his lips, he seized 

 his snuff-box, and shortly after died in idiocy. 



"Why did you send me that pamphlet on smok- 

 ing?" said a pastor to a friend. "Because I 

 thought you needed it." "Who told you that I 

 smoked?" "You told me as you go about." 

 " I will confess that I know it is wrong, and that 

 I once gave it up ; but, fool as I am, I took to it 

 again, and I have been in bondage ever since." 



An eminent minister exclaimed: "I would 

 gladly lay down a hundred pounds if I could give 

 up smoking." 



"Oh," exclaimed a sufferer, "I need tobacco to 

 give me resolution to give up tobacco." 



" I would give half my farm to get rid of this 

 master," declared another. 



"I have given up my pipe a dozen times, and 

 then returned to it," said a third victim. "I will 

 try no more." 



So imperious is the appetite, that during our civil 

 war men were sometimes shot by the enemy 

 simply because they would strike a light and 

 smoke. And many risked capture in their peril- 

 ous search after what smokers call "a little fire." 



"I know my pipe is injuring me," a young man 

 confessed, " but were I certain that it would cur- 

 tail my life fifteen years, I could not give it up." 



