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Such excitement is all I’m in lack 0’, 
And the poetic vein soon to fancy gives reign, 
Inspired by a pipe of Tobacco. 
‘¢ And when with one accord, round the jovial board, 
In friendship our bosoms are glowing; 
While with toast and with song we the evening prolong, 
And with nectar the goblets are flowing; 
Still let us puff, puff—be life smooth, be it rough, 
Such enjoyment we're ever in lack 0’; 
The more peace and goodwill will abound as we fill 
A jolly good pipe of Tobacco.” 
The tobacco jar is another accessory of more recent date 
than tobacco pipes but interesting from the varieties of style 
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and shapes. The finest are made of porcelain and are lavish 
in design and enrichment. Of all the articles of the smokers’ 
paraphernalia none however exhibit more fanciful designs 
than Tobacco-stoppers used by smokers for crowding the 
tobacco into the pipe while smoking. The author of “A 
Paper of Tobacco” says: 
“ This was the only article on which the English smoker 
prided himself. It was made of various materials—wood, 
bone, ivory, mother-of-pearl, and silver : and the forms which 
it assumed were exceedingly diversjfied. Out of a collection 
of upwards of thirty tobacco-stoppers of different ages, from 
1688 to the present time, the following are the most remark- 
able: a bear’s tooth tipped with silver at the bottom, and 
inscribed with the name of Captain James Rogers of the 
