192 TOBACCO-PIPES, CIGARS, ETC. 



materials being wholly different from any in England, 

 they are represented in the above engraving. The 

 bowl part, formed of iron, like the socket of a candle- 

 stick, is inserted in a piece of mahogany carved into 

 some whimsical form, and the mahogany is securely 

 bound and ornamented with brass wire ; to a small 

 brass chain is attached a tin cover to the bowl. The 

 tube is of dogwood, such as butcher's skewers are 

 made of, or a similar hard wood ; and, being moveable, 

 may be taken out for accommodation to the pocket, 

 or renewal at pleasure. These pipes cost sixpence 

 each." * It was in 1828 that Hone published these 

 cuts, but the use of such pipes ceased in Ireland 

 before the first visit there of the author of this 

 work in 1841, to assist in the illustration of Hall's 

 book on Ireland, and this has been an inducement to 

 him to devote so much space in the present work, to 

 the forms assumed by pipes, as they exhibit fashions 

 almost as evanescent as the fumes they emit. 



In the Far North tobacco seems naturally welcome. 

 We have already noted the severity with which the 



* A pipe, evidently of the same workmanship, having an iron bowl 

 inserted in a wooden stock of less artistic workmanship, but also bound 



with brass wire, was very care- 



^— /T lfff i W^l^— -"T^MFfr ^ u ^ y ^ rawn kv an Irish artist, 



^ - 4 j 1 1 __ \\T~~ ' ||0 under the superintendance of an 



'^*"*— — ^—-^ antiauarv, and sent to Mr. Crofton 



antiquary, and sent to Mr. Crofton 

 Croker as a great curiosity, "having been found in a Danish Rath (or 

 Hill Fort), in the county of Waterford, Nov. 1839." This was in perfect 

 good faith, with no attempt at imposition ; and is a curious proof of the 

 value of this kind of evidence. The note fortunately made by Hone at once 

 clarifies the obscurity ; and is also a proof that these pipes were compara- 

 tively unknown out of the Irish capital. 



