From Fire to Fortune.

Otago Witness, Issue 1751, 13 June 1885, Page 28

From Fire to Fortune.

Lundy Eoot, the oelebrated snuff manufao turer^ originally kept a small tobacconist's shop at Limerick. Ona night his house, which was uninsured, was burned to the ground. As he tjontemplated the smoking ruins on the following morning, in a state bordering on despair, some of the poor neighbours, groping among the embers for what they could find, stumbled upon several canisters of unconsumed but half-baked snuff, which they tried, and found it to be so pleasant to their noses that tbf>v loaded their waiscoat pockets with ifc. Foot, aroused from his stupor, imitated their example, and took a pinch of his own property. Ha was struck by the superior pungency and flavour the snuff had acquired from the great heat to which it had been expoued. Acting upon the hint he took another house ia a place called Black Yard, erected ovens, aid set about the manufacture of that highdried commodity which soon became widely known as Black Yard snuff. Eventually, he found himself able to take a larger hou?e in Dublin, whero, making his customers pay litterally through the nose, he, in course of time, amassed a large fortune.

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