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slight service to your Majesty and the realm,” replied 
courteous knight, “thee will be well content revdtblen 
“But your Majesty will soon see that I fail not. First 
madam, I place this empty pipe in the scales, and I find that 
it weighs exactly 2 ounces. tage fill it with tobacco, and 
the weight is in- . 
creased to 2 1-10th 
ounce. I must now 
ask your Majesty to 
allow me to smoke 
the pipe out. I shall 
then turn out the 
ashes, and place them 
together with the 
pipe in the scale once 
more. The differ- 
ence between the 
weight of the pipe 
with the unsmoked 
tobacco, and weight 
of the pipe with the 
ashes, will be the 
weight of the smoke.” 
“You are too clever 
for us, Sir Walter. We shall expect you to-night at supper, 
and if the conversation grow dull, you shall tell our cour- 
tiers the story of the pipe.” 
Many other anecdotes have been told of the adventures of 
Raleigh with his pipe. One is that while taking a quiet 
smoke his servant entered and becoming alarmed on seeing 
the smoke coming from his nose threw a mug of ale in his 
face. 
The same anecdote is also related of others including 
‘Tarlton. He gives an account of it in his Jests 1611. it is 
told in this manner: 
“Tarlton as other gentlemen used, at the first coming up 
of tobacco, did take it more for fashion’s sake than otherwise, 
and being in a roome, sat betweene two men overcome with 
wine, and they never seeing the like, wondered at it, and 
seeing the vapour come out of Tarlton’s nose, cryed out, 
‘Fire, fire!’ and threw a cup of wine in Tarlton’s face. 
‘Make no more stirre,’ quoth Tarlton, ‘the fire is quenched ; 
if the sheriffs come, it will turne a fine as the custom is.’ 
WEIGHING SMOKE, 
