A BISHOP ON TOBACCO.
- Bulletin:—"The present writer ; was? one morning in Fitzroy ' - - Gardeus,- Melbourne, smoking his pipe when--Bishop Moorhouse came along "c. -Zand,^sat down oa . a seat,, asked for: a - ' match and lighted up. And then,- .> noticing that his deponent's pipe didn't .draw well, he entered upon a lecture on the art of filling a pipe. ' First,' . said he, ' see that it is clear. A foal pipe is Jike a foul mind, which beholds • all things darkly. Then shred -your tobacco carefully, rub it up roughly, - : and preas it gently, very gently, into ••••'. the bowl. Then when you apply -the light do so to the centre of the . v tobacco. Let it burn through -the care, so to say. After which, when -r. you press down the edges you get the " " marrow of the smoke—and that is the ■ soul of it.' 'I wonder,' said the writer, 'whether St. Paul would have v smoked had . the weed been-known to him f 'To .be sure. To be sure. Twaa the .tOge--thing needed to make him perfect,' quoih the bishop. Then, with, an earnest air, he went on— poor fellow, it would have been A great solace to him, an innocent : -.oiie.'" , , .. .
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 29, Issue 1522, 31 December 1898, Page 4
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199A BISHOP ON TOBACCO. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 29, Issue 1522, 31 December 1898, Page 4
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