My Lady Nicotine: A Study in SmokeBarrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke
Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
Smoking -- Anecdotes; Tobacco -- Anecdotes; Wit and humor, Pictorial
WHEN MY WIFE IS ASLEEP AND ALL THE HOUSE IS STILL 269
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PAGE
Half-Title i
Frontispiece iv
Title-Page v
Headpiece to Table of Contents vii
Tailpiece to Table of Contents viii
Headpiece to List of Illustrations ix
Tailpiece to List of Illustrations xiii
Headpiece to Chap. I. 1
"As well as a spring bonnet and a nice dress" 6
"There are the Japanese fans on the wall" 7
Tailpiece Chap. I. "My wife puts her hand on my shoulder" 10
Headpiece Chap. II. 11
"At last he jumped up" 14
Box of cigars 15
Tailpiece Chap. II. "I firmly lighted my first cigar" 17
Headpiece Chap. III. "Jimmy pins a notice on his door" 18
"We are only to be distinguished by our pipes" 20
The Arcadia Mixture 21
Tailpiece Chap. III. 26
Headpiece Chap. IV. "Oh, see what I have done" 27
"I fell in love with two little meerschaums" 33
Pipes and pouch 36
Tailpiece Chap. IV. 37
Headpiece Chap. V. "They ... made tongs of their
knitting-needles to lift it" 38
"I ... cast my old pouch out at the window" 40, 41
"It never quite recovered from its night in the rain" 43
Tailpiece Chap. V. 44
Headpiece Chap VI. "My Smoking-Table" 45
"Sometimes I had knocked it over accidentally" 48
Tailpiece Chap. VI. 51
Headpiece Chap. VII. "We met first in the Merediths' house-boat" 52
"He 'strode away blowing great clouds into the air,'" 57
Tailpiece Chap. VII. "The Arcadia had him for its own" 59
Headpiece Chap. VIII. "I let him talk on" 60
Pipes and jar of spills 62, 63
Tray of pipes and cigars 64
"I would ... light him to his sleeping-chamber with a spill" 68
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