Show LISZT SMOKED CIGAR DAILY u great musician insisted incited on having a good one on until his HI day of misfortune liszt WM was in the habl babl of 0 smoking bracking one cigar a dy day but that one cigar was an exceedingly choice one when i he was starting blurting on a journey he told nil his valet how many days he would be b away and his hi valet put into the valise a corresponding number of 0 those virginia cigars once when liszt was going to italy the chief customs officer at the frontier post poet of chaisso cl asked him it if he had bad anything to declare the musician with hla his thoughts centered on his hi music rather than his cigars made signs igna to the effect that he had nothing the officer opened the valise without the traveler agitating himself over the search a r umber of virginia cigars were brought to light the whole lot was and he was ordered to pay a fine of when liszt reached milan he told his Is agent of ills his unpleasant adventure laughed at the ft hole affair took a stroll to the italian treasury and recovered the cigars and the una fins on returning to the artist he offered him with a smile one of 0 his own procious precious Virgin virginias las 11 no my dear friend said liszt 1 I have taken a vow never to smoke again so as not to expose myself a second time to such a humiliation ricardi says he kept his vow othor other authorities recall rogers visit to the virtuoso in 1870 liszt smoked and offered me a cigar said reger R eger and while I 1 took my ease he be walked up and down sending out clouds of smoke in the direction of certain terra cottu cotta figures |