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The Anatomy of Tobacco

and like to ancient misereres cushioned with white satin. So the only pipe proper in such case is the churchwarden, and that a full yard in length. Likewise let the tobacco be placed on a dish, and all will be harmonious and in accord.

But this digression into which I have wandered pertains rather to pipe poetry than Pipe Philosophy, and so I will not enlarge upon it. And for the same reason I do not enter into the innumerable digressions which are open to me concerning place, but leave them either to be writ or not to be writ as it may chance. Wherefore as to place, both where and where not, enough, and so as to what follows.

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