world over, and would he till the world shall 

 end . . . our lands seemed to he exactly adapted 

 to produce a hroad, silky leaf for wrappers to 

 high-priced Havanas . . . 



/ have made more from even the little tohacco 

 patch hack of my ham than from all other crops 

 on my whole place. [Apart from douhlin^i his 

 subscriptions to foreign missions and sending 

 his children to good schools, the deacon had 

 made presents to the minister] which he gladly 

 received in spite of the denunciations of Mr. 

 Trask and other fanatics. 



The most aident American antitobacconist of his day 

 then went on to say tliat the farmer had followed his 

 deacon's advice, for he was "a pious and plausible man." 

 Trask said he was not at all surprised that the crop 

 failed, leaving the grower a poorer and unhappy man. 



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