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of shot, he had stood there waiting for his beloved master.”* 
Tobacco smoking, however, can boast of many patrons 
besides warriors, physicians and statesmen, some of the finest 
writers of the last three centuries have indulged in the weed. 
The following extract from the “ Australasian ” entitled, 
“Tobacco Smoking” refers to many literary smokers. 
“Burke felt himself precluded from ‘drawing an indict- 
ment against a whole community.’ The critical moralist 
pauses before the formidable array of the entire social world, 
civilized and savage. The Cockney, leaving behind him the 
regalias and meerschaums of the Strand, finds the wax-tipped 
clay-pipe in the parlors of Yorkshire: finds dhudeen and 
cutty in the wilds of Galway and on the rugged shores of 
Skye and Mull. The Frenchman he finds enveloped in 
clouds of Virginia, and the Swede, Dane, and Norwegian, 
of every grade or class, makes the pipe his travelling compan- 
ion and his domestic solace. The Magyar, the Pole and the 
Russian rival the Englishman in gusto, perhaps excel him in 
refinement ; the Dutch boor smokes finer Tobacco than many 
English gentlemen can command, and more of it than many 
of our hardened votaries could endure; but all must yield, 
or rather, all must accumulate, ere our conceptions can 
approach to the German. America and the British colonies 
round off the picture, adding Cherokees, Redmen and Mon- 
olians ad libitum. The Jew whether in Hounds ditch, Paris 
amburgh, or Constantinople, ever inhales the choicest 
growths, and the Mussulman’s ‘keyf’ is proverbial. India 
and Persia dispute with us the palm of refinement and 
intensity, but the philosopher of Australia is embarrassed 
when he asks himself to whom shall I award that of zealous 
devotion ? 
“ Dr. Adam Clarke, who could never reconcile himself to 
the practice, deemed it due to his piety to find a useful pur- 
pose in the creation of tobacco by all-seeing Wisdom, and as 
that discovered by the instincts of all the nations of the 
planet, and practiced by mankind for three centuries, is 
wrong, the benevolent Wesleyan of Heydon, applied himself 
diligently and generously to correct the world, and to vindi- 
cate its Author. “In some rare cases of internal injury 
tobacco may be used but not in the customary way.’ Be it 
*During the conquest of Holland, Louvais paid more attention to furnishing tobacco than 
Provisions ; and even at this as well as in former times, more care is taken to procure 
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aon mece. than bread to the soldier. Every soldier was obliged to have his pipe and his 
