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at her ample person; “then, madam,—I must say, 
madam,—” “Sir, sir, are you going to be rude?” “J 
must say, madam,” he continued, “you are the greatest 
tobacco-stopper in all England.” Of the clergy, Whatley 
was one of the greatest in intellect, and, as a smoker, 
was devotedly attached to tobacco; his pipes, when out, 
served him for a book-marker. In summer-time he might 
be seen, of an evening, sitting on the chains of Stephen’s 
‘Green, thinking of “that,” as the song says, and of much 
more, while he was “smoking tobacco.” In winter he 
walked and smoked, vigorously in both cases, on the Donny- 
brook road; or he would be out with his dogs, climbing up 
the trees to hide amid the branches a key or a knife, which, 
after walking some distance, he would tell the dogs he had 
lost, and bid them look for it and bring it to him. 
Of many warriors, none have been more devoted to the 
plant than Napoleon, Frederick of Prussia and Bliicher the 
Bold. The following anecdote of the latter is one of the 
best of itskind: “As is well-known, Field-Marshal Bliicher, 
in addition to his brave young ‘fellows’ (as he called his 
horsemen), loved three things above all, namely, wine, 
gambling, and a pipe of Tobacco. With his pipe he would 
not dispense, and he always took two or three pufis, at least, 
before undertaking anything. ‘Without Tobacco, I am not 
worth a farthing, he often said. Though so passionately 
fond of Tobacco, yet old ‘ Forwards’ was no friend of costly 
smoking apparatus; and he liked best to smoke long, Dutch 
clay pipes, which, as everybody knows, very readily break. 
Therefore, from among his ‘young fellows’ he had chosen 
for himself a Pipe-master, who had charge of a chest well 
packed with clay pipes; and this chest was the most precious 
jewel in Blicher’s field baggage. If one of the pipes broke, 
it was, for our hero, an event of the greatest importance. 
On its occurrence, the ‘wounded’ pipe was narrowly 
examined, and if the stem was not broken off too near the 
head, it was sent to join the corps of Invalids, and was called 
‘Stummel’ (Stump, or Stumpy). One of these Stumpies the 
