Tobacco Talk

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Tobacco Talk

AND

Smokers' Gossip

An amusing Miscellany of Fact
and Anecdote relating to the "Great
Plant" in all its Forms and Uses
including a Selection from

Nicotian Literature

LONDON

GEORGE REDWAY

MDCCCLXXXVI

On a Tobacco Jar.

Three hundred yeare ago or soe,
Ane worthye knight and gentlemanne
Did bring me here, to charm and chere
Ye physical and mental manne.

God rest his soule, who filld ye bowle,
And may our blessings finde him,
That he not misse some share of blisse,
Who left soe much behind him!

Bernard Barker.

17 Thordarson purchase Jan 47

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PREFACE.

HE present collection of Notes and Anecdotes has been gleaned from the more generally interesting portion of a History of Tobacco, which for some few years has been in progress, and the materials for which were gathered from every available

source.

Not only novels and plays, old newspapers, travels and memoirs, have been examined or perused; but the works of poets and satirists, histories, acts of parliament, technical treatises, the accounts of early voyages, collections of tracts and tobacco journals, have been ransacked for contributions on the use and abuse, the praise and blame, of the "plant divine."

For the delectation of all devotees of Tobacco; for those who take their Latakia from the seductive meerschaum, or Virginia from the clay; for those who taste the "naked beauties"