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errors, which wiU be fatal to your hopes, and ruino\is 

 to your pockets ; out of pure good-nature, therefore, 

 1 will set you rig-ht if I can. 



But I must g-ive you my reasons for disliking 

 this ' care-killing' herh ; and my objections to an 

 extended cultivation of it in this country. In 

 the first 2>lace, my sense of smelling is annoyed by 

 its fumes ; — my sense of seeing, by the spitting- and 

 dirtiness occasioned by smoking ; — my taste is nau- 

 seated by chewing it ; — and, alas ! my hearing is 

 wofully affected by Mrs. Doyle's continued grumbling 

 and snul)bing at the loss which I last year sustained 

 from having- given up three acres of my best land to 

 the planting of Tobacco, which from various causes, 

 has produced little or nothing- ; — at breakfast, (hnner, 

 and supper, aye, and in bed too, where I cannot turn 

 the bothered side, this unlucky speculation is brought 

 tip ; " if you had taken your wife's advice, Mr. 

 Doyle ; if you had been contented with potatoes or 

 t\irnips, or mangel wurzel, you would have saved at 

 least one hundred pounds, and have preserved your 

 character for prudence," with several variations, all 

 to the same tune, are chnned into my ear, so that 

 there are four of my Jive senses, (a sufficient majority 

 to satisfy myself at least,) against Tobacco. Besides 

 my understanding informs me, that a desire for it is 

 not natural to man. At first use it is sickening to 

 every one ; and the plea that it is wholesome, or that 

 it prevents people from being hungry, is a bad one, 

 for though in some instances it may be usefid as a 

 medicine, its efiect when much indulged in, is to 

 take away the appetite, an undesirable circumstance, 

 I think, for those who have a certainty of breakfast 

 and dinner. It does not Jill the stomach, but by 

 drawing away the saliva which is necessary for di- 

 gestion, lessens the craving for food. Sniiff-taking 

 is also unnatural and unnecessary; cramming dust 

 into the nostrils every ten minutes is absurd and dis- 

 gusting; it always renders the voice less articulate, 

 and deprives it of its clearness : the only pleasant 



