PECULIAR PIPES
Four, thousand years ago, when .there were' no 'pipes, people "smoked" by squatting around an incense-burning fire and inhaling the fumes. Such a procedure invariably made them "druuk." The clean, comforting, modern brier has many strange antecedents, some of which are still in service among remote tribes. The Kirghis shepherds of Turkestan smoke a pipe fashioned from the knuckle-bone of a lamb with the marrow scooped out and a hole punched in the thicker end for the bowl.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 21, 25 July 1934, Page 14
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80PECULIAR PIPES Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 21, 25 July 1934, Page 14
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