118 ANECDOTES. 
And drinking that againe, ‘Fie,’ says the other: ‘what a 
stinke it makes. I am almost poysoned.’ ‘If it offend, 
quoth Tarlton, ‘let’s every one take a little of the smell, and 
go the savor will quickly go; but tobacco whiffes made them 
leave him to pay all.” = 
Rich gives the following account of a similar scene :— 
“I remember a pretty jest of tobacco which was this: A 
certain Welchman coming newly to London, and beholding 
one to take tobacco, never seeing the like before, and not 
knowing the manner of it, but perceiving him vent smoke 
so fast, and supposing his inward parts to be on fire, cried 
out, ‘O Jhesu, thea man, for the passion of Cod hold, for 
by Cod’s splud ty snowt’s on fire,’ and having a bowle of 
beere in his hand, threw it at the other’s face, to quench his 
smoking nose.” 
The following anecdote is equally ludicrous. Before 
tobacco was much known in Germany, some soldiers belong- 
ing to a cavalry regiment were quartered in a German village 
One of them, a trumpeter, happened to be a negro. A 
peasant, who had never seen a black man before, and who 
knew nothing about tobacco, watched, though at a safe dis- 
tance, the trumpeter, while the latter groomed and fed his 
horse. As soon as this business was dispatched, the negro 
filled his pipe and began to smoke it. Great had been the 
peasant’s bewilderment before; great was his terror now. 
The terror reached an intolerable point when the negro took 
the pipe from his mouth, offered it to the peasant, and asked 
him, in the best language he could command, to take a whiff. 
“No, no!” cried the peasant, in exceeding alarm; “no, nol 
Mr. Devil; I do not wish to eat fire.” 
Henry Fielding, in “The Grub Street Opera” written 
_ about a century ago, has the following verses on Tobacco :— 
“ Let the learned talk ot books, 
The glutton of cooks, 
The lover of Celia’s soft smack—O! 
No mortal can boast 
So noble a toast, 
As a pipe of accepted tobacco. 
“Let the soldier for fame, 
And a general’s name, 
In battle get many a thwack—-O! 
