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pipe or segar very convenient here. But such as are 
not would do better, perhaps, not to learn a bad habit. 
I will therefore give a simple substitute. 
SMOKER DESCRIBED. 
Get a tube of tin about five-eighths of an inch di- 
ameter, five or six inches in length ; make stoppers 
cf wood to fit both ends, two and a half or three 
inches long ; with your nail-gimlet make a hole 
through them lengthwise : when put together it should 
be about ten inches. The ends may be tapered. On 
one end leave a notch, that it may be held with the 
teeth, which is the most convenient way, as you will 
often want to use both hands ; it is also always ready, 
without any trouble to blow through, and also to keep 
the tobacco burning. When ready to operate, fill the 
tube with tobacco, ignite it, and put in the stoppers ; 
by blowing through it you keep the tobacco burning 
while the smoke issues at the other end. 
EFFECT OF TOBACCO SMOKE. 
We can now subdue these combative propensities, 
or render them harmless ; turn their anger to submis- 
sion, and make them yield their treasures to the hands 
of the spoiler without an effort of resistance 1 When 
once overpowered, they seem to lose all knowledge 
of their strength, and no slave can be more submis- 
sive 1 After the effects of the smoke have passed off, 
their former animosity will return. Should any re- 
sentment be shown on raising a hive, blow in the 
smoke ; they immediately retreat, “ begging pardon.” 
