SIR WALTER RALEIGH’S BET. Sir Walter Raleigh once won a bet wilh Queen Elizabeth that he could weigh tobacco smoke. He first weighed the tobacco, (hen he smoked it. and then he Aveighed the ashes. So fond was Raleigh of his pipe, that before losing his head in the ToAver of London, he ‘‘took a pipeful of tobacco a little before he went to the scaffold.” In those days the blending of tobacco was not knoAvn. and the art of cultivation has effected a wonderful improvement in the “divine weed.” What would Raleigh say to-day. for instance, if given the opportunity of smoking a pipeful of Dill’s Best, acclaimed by millions these past eighty years as ‘‘the most satisfying tobacco ever made.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18200, 26 February 1929, Page 9
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