MEN LIKE PIPES. 915 
‘A-friend has left us, or ‘Poor old Joe; his pipe is out” 
We have all a certain supply of life, or, if we would pursue 
the comparison, a share of tobacco. Some young men 
smoke too rapidly, even voraciously, and thus exhaust their 
share before their proper time,—then we say they have 
‘lived too fast,” or ‘ pulled at their pipes too hard.’ Others, 
on the contrary, make their limited supply go a long’ way, 
and when they are taking their last puffs of life’s perfumed , 
plant their energy is unimpaired; they can run a race, walk 
a mile with any one, and show few wrinkles upon their brow, 
“A delicate person is like a pipe with a crack in the bowl, ' 
THE ARTIST. 
for it takes continued and careful pulling to keep his light 
in; and to take life is like willfully dashing a lighted pipe 
from the mouth into fragments, and scattering the sparks to 
the four winds of heayen. An artist is a good coloring pipe ; 
