Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...midnight echoes of the quiet old town, to show them "how we men do it at the University." But don't imagine that even his happiness is complete. He is worrying to-day about the best way of breaking to his mother the fact that he has learned to smoke...
...answer is given, "Because they are a hardier race and live in a better climate." This reply is true to a certain extent; they are a hardier race beyond a doubt; but, on the other hand, no Englishman would think of sitting down in a room full of smoke and lounging away the whole afternoon, simply because a little drizzling rain happens to be falling. Their climate is not subject to extremes as is ours, but it is proverbially noted for its wet days, and, as a matter of fact, the disagreeable weather of last week may be taken...
...struck into a new path by saying, 'Now, Cousin Harry, just to prove to you how unhealthy it is, I want to show you something papa taught me. Light your cigarette, - it's the only one I'll ever give you leave to light, - and fill your mouth with smoke. That's right. Now put down your cigarette and take your handkerchief...
...There,' said she, 'you've lost all that smoke. Put up your handkerchief; we will take mine. Now fill your mouth again...
...obeyed directions, and put my stub carefully on my knee. Then she covered my mouth with her handkerchief, and bade me blow the smoke through it, which I did, leaving that brown spot you see there...