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even in Holland for its cleanliness, a public no- 

 tice is affixed to the bridges which lead across the 

 canals to it, requesting all visitors to prevent the fall 

 of tobacco-ashes on the gravel or grass ; and not to 

 knock out their pipes anywhere within bounds of this 

 Dutch Paradise. In Amsterdam the managers of the 

 " people's theatre " are not so particular, but allow 

 smoking in pit and boxes ; and the spectator may see 

 the tragic or comic scenes of his native poets, through 

 the fumes of a hundred pipes. The railway trains are 

 all fitted with conveniences for smoking : and small 

 trays to receive the ash of pipe or cigar are fitted to. the 

 elbow of each seat. It is the land of smoke. To use 

 the words of Washington Irving, " the pipe is never 

 from the mouth of the true-born Nederlander. It is 

 his occupation in solitude, the relaxation of his gayer 

 hours — his counsellor, his consoler, his joy, his pride; 

 in a word, he seems to think and breathe through his 

 pipe." 



We engrave a pleasing specimen of 

 a German pipe, in coloured porce- 

 lain, representing a dog begging ; his 

 body forms a capacious receptacle for 

 tobacco, the collar round his neck 

 opens with a spring, to allow the pipe 

 to be filled ; when lighted it is again 

 closed, and the smoke finds vent at 

 each angle of the dog's mouth. The 

 scroll upon which he is seated is hollow, and forms a 

 capacious drain for the oil condensed in smoking ; it is 



