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belonged to Raleigh. It holds a pound of tobacco, 

 and is pierced with holes to receive pipes. The boxes, 

 however, were usually small enough to be carried in 

 the pocket, and contained, in addition to the weed, 

 a pipe, tongs for holding a live coal, flint and steel, 

 and a pipe-picker. Gallants prided themselves on 

 their tobacco-boxes. The * spruce coxcomb ' of the 

 reign of James I. 



' Never walked without his looking-glass 

 In a tobacco box or dial set.' 



Tobacco-boxes were bequeathed to friends as 

 souvenirs, and sweethearts ' gave him a 'bacca-box 

 marked with her name.' They were given and 

 exchanged as tokens of friendship and in recognition 

 of esteem, as were snuff-boxes in the latter years of 

 the eighteenth century. 



When smoking fell into disgrace tobacco was rarely 

 carried by smokers. They called at inns for a tankard 

 of ale, a pipe, and a paper of tobacco. Indiarubber 

 pouches are of quite recent invention, and were brought 

 into use by the practice of smoking out of doors. 



If the pouch has been introduced, one of the 

 smoker's tools has dropped out of use. The tobacco- 

 stopper for pressing down the ashes is now never 

 seen. The cheapness of tobacco and the greater 

 prodigality of this age have made its use obsolete. 

 Formerly, when tobacco was 8s. or los. a pound, 

 smokers burned their tobacco to the very bottom 

 of the bowl, instead of following the modern wasteful, 

 if healthy, practice of throwing away the residuum. 



The stoppers were made of wood, bone, ivory, 



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