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red-hot wire or of a feather up the stem, and blowing 

 the smoke from the bowl through the stem, covering 

 the bowl with a handkerchief for the operation, are 

 well known. The forcing of steam from an engine 

 through a pipe is an excellent method ; any engineer 

 will clean a pipe thus for a few pence. Another way 

 is to fit into the bowl a cork, through which a hole is 

 bored large enough to make it fit tightly on to the 

 nozzle of a soda-water syphon. Holding a basin 

 under the mouthpiece, force a little soda-water 

 through the pipe, which is thus washed of its oils. 

 It is impossible, however, entirely to rid a well- 

 smoked briar of its accumulated oils. 



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