. Tobacco in song and story . as evident, however, to the com-piler of this book, that no volume treatingon Tobacco had heretofore appearedwhich contained all that deserved a placein the literature of the weed, and at thesame time avoided the scientific treatisesand exhaustive histories on the subjectwhich have no interest to the great armyof smokers. This, in brief, is the object of thisanthology. All the illustrations in thislittle volume have been drawn especiallyfor it. The binding and paper are inkeeping with the best mechanical features ii INTRODUCTION. of any book; while its handy size
. Tobacco in song and story . as evident, however, to the com-piler of this book, that no volume treatingon Tobacco had heretofore appearedwhich contained all that deserved a placein the literature of the weed, and at thesame time avoided the scientific treatisesand exhaustive histories on the subjectwhich have no interest to the great armyof smokers. This, in brief, is the object of thisanthology. All the illustrations in thislittle volume have been drawn especiallyfor it. The binding and paper are inkeeping with the best mechanical features ii INTRODUCTION. of any book; while its handy size makesof it a book in which any smoker maydelight. There is something in the book thatwill appeal to every lover of the weed,no matter what his station in Hfe may beor the grade of tobacco he consumes. Itis not meant to be any more a book forthe smoker of twenty-five cent cigars thanfor the man behind the clay pipe. It is intended to be a book of goodfellowship, in which all smokers are freeand equal. TOBACCO IN SONG SIR WALTER RALEIGH. WALTER RALEIGHS name will always, among theEnglish-speaking races, belinked with that of it was who, in thesixteenth century, found tobacco on theplantations of Virginia, and introducedit into England and Ireland, along withthe potato. He planted both upon hisestate at Gongall, Ireland, the homepresented to him by the auburn-haired, 8 SIR WALTER RALEIGH. falcon-faced Elizabeth, Englands onegreat queen, for services rendered uponthe Spanish Main and in the then NewWorld. Columbus was the first European todiscover tobacco. When he and hiscompanions saw the Indians smoking itand blowing the smoke through theirnostrils, they were as much surprised asthey had been at the first sight of they were no more surprised thanBen Jonson, Beaumont, Selden, Fletcher,and Shakespeare when, one stormy Walter Raleigh walked into the Mer-maid tavern and, throwing pipes andtobacco upon the table, invited all handsto smoke.
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