Pipe and Pouch - The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Pipe and Pouch, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry Author: Various Release Date: February 3, 2005 [EBook #14887] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PIPE AND POUCH *** Produced by David Newman, William Flis, and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. PIPE AND POUCH THE Smoker's Own Book of Poetry COMPILED BY JOSEPH KNIGHT BOSTON JOSEPH KNIGHT COMPANY 1895 [pg iv] Copyright, 1894, BY JOSEPH KNIGHT. University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. [pg v] Dedicated TO MY FRIEND AND FELLOW-SMOKER, WALTER MONTGOMERY JACKSON. [pg vii] PREFACE. This is an age of anthologies. Collections of poetry covering a wide range of subjects have appeared of late, and seem to have met with favor and approval. Not to the busy man only, but to the student of literature such compilations are of value. It is sometimes objected that they tend to discourage wide reading and original research; but the overwhelming flood of books would seem to make them a necessity. Unless one has the rare gift of being able to sprint through a book, as Andrew Lang says Mr.