TOBACCO PAPERS. 139 



Tk er ei Sal us tlnmann och aine ant Ame, 

 0, floUd lypu — Bli, Shin ; gh isn ei gH b(ours's Ha)me i 

 0, Nea, Grles' win " Gsimm, or" raise ; an da lsfly, 

 Whil ? stvi rtu Ou sact (Ion sareb) ut Bor nan d— d ie ! " 



Which is a moral apophthegm, a little deranged pur- 

 posely by the printer, and will read thus : — 



" Tliere is a lust in man no chain can tame, 

 Of loudly publishing his neighbours' shame ! 

 On eagles' -wings immoral scandals fly, 

 "Whilst virtuous actions are but born and die ! 



Another gives some original laudatory rhymes 

 called the 



CONFESSION OF A CIGAR-SMOKER. 



I owe to smoking, more or less, 

 Through life the whole of my success ; 

 "With my cigar I'm sage and wise- — ■ 

 Without, I'm dull as cloudy skies. 

 When smoking all my ideas soar, 

 When not, they sink upon the floor. 

 The greatest men have all been smokers, 

 And so were all the greatest jokers. 

 Then ye who'd bid adieu to care, 

 Come here and smoke it into air ! 



Many of these papers are " adorned with cuts," that 

 must have done service for very many years. One, 

 engraved about 1780, is copied in next page ; it 

 represents the three modes of using tobacco, by chew- 

 ing, smoking, and snuffing, sometimes exhibited in 

 painted signs over tobacconists' doors, as already 



