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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22326, 28 July 1934, Page 23

Four thousand years ago, when there were no pipes, people “ smoked ” by squatting round an incense-burning fire and inhaling the fumes. Such a procedure invariably made them drunk." The clean, comforting, modern briar 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 knucklebone of a lamb from which the marrow has been scooped out and a hole punched in* the thicker end for the bowl. Alfred Dunhilt, an accepted authority on smoking utensils, once discovered a child’s thighbone put to a similar nee in China. The Red Indians of Nova Scotia formerly converted lobster claws into effective pipes, while, to gratify novelty hunters, the Eskimos carve elaborate and artistic pipes out of walrus tusks. Old* soldiers may recall the primitive earth pipes built by Indians during the war. A small hole was dug in the ground and stuffed with tobacco. Into it a stick was thrust almost horizontally and the earth pressed firm on top of it, so that when withdrawn a tiny air tube remained. Then the smoker, having lit big favourite weed, applied his lips to the tube. LINTON —the quality coal. More heat for your money. All merchants.—Advt.