PREFERRED HIS PIPE.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 126, 24 November 1923, Page 17

PREFERRED HIS PIPE.

Frank Lockwoodj a distinguished lawyer and politician, was another wit. There was a good story told about Lockwood and how he tried to teach behavior to a fellow passenger. He was travelling m a. nrst-cSass Smoking .compartment smoking a pipe. There were two strang ers in the carriage, smoking cigars. One of them, _ in an offensively loud voice, said to hie friend, 'What bad form it »s for.aman to smoke a pipe in a first-class .cempartment. Lockwcod said nothing at the time, but when h« bad finished his pipe he knocked out the ashes, and, turning to the speakes, ,he said, "that remark of yours, sir, bears only one interpretation —that you intend to offer mo a,- cigar ' The stranger, very much, taken aback, produced his cigar case, and banded it" to Lockwood, who; examined each cigar. holding.it to his.ear and cracking it: then, after_ smelling.the-case, he handed it back to its owner, saying: 'Thank yoii. sir; I prefer my pipe.'"