Anti-Tobaccoite! I have no wish to fight; But if you douse my light, Mind, we shall wrangle. Why should you interfere, With your new-fangled gear, And try _my_ course to steer At such an angle? No! I must have my light; Whether I read or write, Smoking, by day or night, Aids the reflection. Some may prefer Bohea; Excellent though it be, _I_ think Tobacco the Pink of Perfection! Shag’s my divinity, Pure as virginity; In its vicinity Come not, you croakers! What, though the _Antis_ choke? Still I must have my smoke; Pshaw! let the beggars _croak_! Here’s to the smokers! E. H. S. ――――:o:―――― BEWARE! I know a meerschaum fair to see, Take care! It whispers “Smoke and colour me,” Beware! beware! Smoke it not, ’Tis fooling thee! It cost two guineas, golden brown, Take care! You’d better smash it; drop it down; Beware! beware! Smoke it not; ’Tis fooling thee. A mouthpiece of a golden hue, Take care! ’Twill very likely make you――vomit, Beware! beware! Smoke it not! ’Tis fooling thee. It hath a bowl as white as snow, Take care! Smoke it black, to Old Nick you’ll go; Beware! beware! Smoke it not; ’Tis fooling thee. P. C. ―――― TOBACCO SMOKE! The clouds of smoke were rising fast, As through a college room there passed A youth, who bore, ’spite sage advice, A “baccy”-pouch, with strange device, “Tobacco smoke!” His brow was sad; his eye beneath Glared on a pipe, laid in its sheath, And in his ears there ever rung The accents of the donor’s tongue, Tobacco smoke! In ground-floor rooms he saw the light, Of pipes and weeds glow strong and bright; And, heedless of the passing don, From out his lips escaped a groan, Tobacco smoke! “Try not the shag,” the old man said, “It is o’er strong for thy young head, Dire its effects to those untried;” Heedless he was, and but replied, Tobacco smoke! “Oh, stay,” the maiden said, “and test Our Latakia――’tis the best!” He grasped his packet of birds’-eye, And only muttered with a sigh, Tobacco smoke! “Beware; don’t set your room alight―― The college might object――good night!” Such were the words the scholar spoke, And scarcely heard through closing oak, Tobacco smoke!