GERMAN PIPES. 199 



about three shillings each. The Potato-pipe has also 

 been largely imported, and first became known here by 

 a notice in that amusing little book, The Log of the 

 Water Lily, whose crew first saw it on the banks of the 

 Maine: "while here, a native addressed us, who was 

 smoking a very singular looking kind of pipe (we saw 

 many of them afterwards), which is said to be made of 

 potato; but whatever they may be made of, their 

 properties are peculiar : when new they look like china, 

 but when smoked they rapidly colour in wavy lines all 

 round, and present an appearance like the landscape 

 bottles of Alum-bay sand." 



The ordinary German pipe of porcelain consists of a 

 double bowl, the upper one containing the tobacco, 



which fits into a spout or socket, and allows the oil 

 to drain into the lower bowl, which is generally held in 

 the hand of the smoker ; the tube of wood, usually 

 formed of cherry-tree,* is easily moved, by which it 



* This custom of using some odorous wood for the stem is of Eastern 

 origin; it is noted by Baillard, in 1668, as used "to add to the vapour 

 a particular virtue." A flavour like that of the cherry kernel is given by 

 this means to the tobacco-smoke. 



