Show LOVE FOR PIP PH 4 poet laureate smoked a long clay and hated florence because the tobacco there was bad Tenny sons passion for it a long clay Is well known ile ha smoked miles and afterwards afeei wards dublin clays mild birdseye was his favorite tobacco the story that he bo never smoked the samo same pipe twice Is absurd for like all smokers ho he detested now pipes lie entertained the liveliest hatred hariod ot of florence because he could not got get any decent tobacco there and on th athla account promptly returned home hom e carlyle Carly lc describing tennyson bal scald d infinite tobacco jus hia devotion to the herb became so intense that literally he could not exist without it on one occasion at a soiree of the royal io society clety he declared he bo must have hae a pipe A friend said ho he should smoke up the chimney of the library or on the roof tennyson chose the latter and with his body thrust halt half way through the skylight puffed away in peace descending in a quarter of tin an hour greatly refreshed wherever lie ho went vont he must be allowed to smoke accepting an inai tation to visit mr gladstone on 1876 he wrote As abu tire good enough to say you sou will manage anything rather than lose my visit will you manage that I 1 can have my pipe tr in my room whenever I 1 like |