Excerpt from The Smokers', Chewer's, and Snuff Taker's Companion, and Tobacconists Own Book: Being the Best Defence of Tobacco Ever Written, Exposing Many Popular Errors That Now Exist Against Its Use Tobacco, o'er all the world holds sovereign sway; We Americans receive a new warmth of republicanism as we enjoy the flavor of the Maryland leaf, or Virginia twist; even England and her own little knot of merry islets are deliciously edulcorated by its vapors. The nationality of the Emerald Isle would be effected, if the Irishman was deprived of his dhudeen and a pinch of Lundyfoot's blackguard. The Scotchman has long been conspicuous as the the sign and token of the trade; the sporran or tobacco pouch safely lodged in his philibeg' and the bonnie mull in one hand, Whilst with the other he is treating his nasal promontory with a pinch of the almost impalpable Scotch, or the more modern Gillespie's Edin boro.' In England, as well as in our own country its use is universal - the tradesman shuts up his shop and enjoys his pipe; the farmer, after the market-day's dinner, relishes his heavy-bodied port With a whiff of returns; the sailor chaws his backey, and cares not how short cut the beef and biscuit may run, if pig-tail be in abund ance; the military man, in barracks, or bivouac, is equally attentive to charging his Cigar case as his cartridge box. Who has not read the anecdote of the officer, who, during a nightwatch of peculiar severity, discovered a solitary Cigar in his case, which he imagined had been empty: his sudden transition from the depths of wretchedness and suffering, to actual enjoyment, although beautifully de scribed, is conceivable only by those Who have similarly suffered.
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