Playing The Piper

Playing the PiperThe Pipe! It is a great soother, a pleasant comforter! Blue devils fly before its honest breath! It ripens the brain; it opens the heart; and the man who smokes thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan."Flying blue devils, open hearts and sagacious thinking aside, we might add to the venerable Lord Lytton's paean to the pipe, penned in 1851, that the smoker also gets a lot of plain old pleasure out of it. For there has not come into the world since his time a more enjoy...