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seemed so strange that he asked the doctor about it. 

 Without any hesitation the wise man told him that the 

 trouble all came from the smoke of the tobacco that he 

 used. He said the boy could not get well unless the 

 father stopped smoking, or unless he went away from 

 home and stayed away. This put the matter so clearly, 

 and the man loved his son so much, that he stopped 

 smoking at once and the boy got well. From that time 

 on he stayed well, and even the father himself was in 

 better health. 



If you should walk through a train of cars with your 

 eyes shut, you would know the smoking car by its smell. 

 Indeed, the odor of the tobacco smoke is so strong that 

 even if no one had smoked in that car for weeks, the 

 smell would remain and tell the story. It is also so dis- 

 agreeable to some people that men who are traveling, 

 and wish to smoke, have to do it in a car by themselves, 

 for even the smell of the smoke sometimes makes 

 women and children car-sick. 



QUESTIONS 



1. Describe the robbing of the bees. 



2. How did the man treat his greenhouse bugs and worms? 



3. What is done with the different parts of a tobacco leaf? 



4. How does the first smoke sometimes affect a man or child? 



5. What is it in the tobacco that does the harm? 



6. Tell the story about the boy and his smoking father. 



7. Why do men have to travel in a separate car when they smoke? 



