STUDY AND STIMULANTS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE “sezerieros."1 SIR,—Your very interesting article on this subject, in the con- clusion of which I am disposed to agree, recalls to me, however, the late Canon Kingsley's panegyric on tobacco in "Westward Ho !" chapter vii. Salvation Yeo, /oq.: " Ah, Sir, no lie, but a blessed truth, as I can tell, who have ere now gone in the strength of this weed three days and nights without eating ; and, therefore, Sir, the Indians always carry it with them on- their war parties ; and no wonder, for when all things were made, none was made better than this ; to be a lone man's com- panion, a bachelor's friend, a hungry man's food, a sad man's- cordial, a wakeful man's sleep, and a chilly man's fire, Sir while for stanching of wounds, purging of wounds, purging of rheum, and settling of the stomach, there's no herb like unto it under the canopy of heaven." And the Canon, like the Poet. Laureate, was a smoker himself, you know.—I am, Sir, &c.,
A LOVER OF KINGSLEY.
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