strong desire to see where they had laid him, when, upon pulling out his little horn box, as I sat by his grave, and plucking a nettle or two at the head of it, which had no business to grow there, they all struck together so forcibly upon my affections that I burst into a flood of tears--but I am as weak as a woman; I beg the world not to smile, but pity me." Many pleasing effusions have been written promoted doubtless by a sneeze among which the following on "A pinch of Snuff" from "The Sportsman Magazine," exhibits the custom and the benefits ascribed to its indulgence. "With mind or body sore distrest, Or with repeated cares opprest, What sets the aching heart at rest? A pinch of snuff! "Or should some sharp and gnawing pain Creep round the noddle of the brain, What puts all things to rights again? A pinch of snuff! "When speech and tongue together fail, What helps old ladies in their tale, And adds fresh canvass to their sail? A pinch of snuff! "Or when some drowsy parson prays, And still more drowsy people gaze, What opes their eyelids with amaze? A pinch of snuff! "A comfort which they can't forsake, What is it some would rather take, Than good roast beef, or rich plum cake? A pinch of snuff! "Should two old gossips chance to sit, And sip their slop, and talk of it, What gives a sharpness to their wit? A pinch of snuff! "What introduces Whig or Tory, And reconciles them in their story, When each is boasting in his glory? A pinch of snuff! "What warms without a conflagration Excites without intoxication, And rouses without irritation? A pinch of snuff! "When friendship fades, and fortune's spent, And hope seems gone the way they went, One cheering ray of joy is sent-- A pinch of snuff! "Then let us sing in praise of snuff! And call it not such 'horrid stuff,' At which some frown, and others puff, And seem to flinch. "But when a friend presents a box, Avoid the scruples and the shocks Of him who laughs and he who mocks, And take a pinch!" From "Pandora's Box" from which we have already quoted, we extract the following in which the use of snuff is deprecated by the author: