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■pipe or segar very couvenient here. But sucli as are 

 not would do better, perhaps, not to learn a bad habit. 

 T will therefore give a simple substitute. 



SMOKER DESCRIBED. 



Get a tube of tin about five-eighths of an inch di- 

 ameter, five or six inches in length; make stoppers 

 cf wood to fit both ends, two and a half or three 

 inches long ; with your nail-gimlet make a hole 

 through them lengthwise : when- put together it should 

 be about ten inches. The ends may be tapered. On 

 one end leave a notch, that it may be held wit^ the 

 teeth, which is the most convenient way, as you will 

 often want to use both hands : it is also always ready, 

 without any trouble to blow through, and also to keep 

 the tobacco burning. When ready to operate, fill the 

 tube with tobacco, ignite it, and put in the stoppers ; 

 by blowing through it you keep the tobacco burning 

 while the smoke issues at the other end. 



EFFECT OF TOBACCO SMOKE. 



We can now subdue these' combative propensities, 

 or render them harmless ; turn their anger to submis- 

 sion, and make them yield their treasures to the hands 

 of the spoiler without an effort of resistance ! When 

 once overpowered, they seem to lose all knowledge 

 of their strength, and no slave can be more submis- 

 sive ! After the efifects of the smoke have passed off, 

 their former' ainiriiosity will return. Should any re- 

 sentment be shown on raising a hive, blow in the 

 smoke ; they immediately retreat, " begging pardon," 



