eces of anything else which
has contained it. Tobacco gives the Laplanders a pleasure which often
rises to ecstacy. They both chew and smoke, and they are certainly the
dirtiest chewers in the world. When they chew they spit in their
hands, then raise them to their nose that they may inhale from the
saliva the irritating principles of the plant. Thus they satisfy two
senses at the same time. They regularly smoke after their meals. If
their supply of Tobacco falls short, they sit down in a circle and
pass the pipe round, so that every one in his turn may have a
whiff.[53]

[Footnote 53: Reynard, in his "Travels In Lapland," says
of the use of tobacco: "We interrogated our Laplander
upon many subjects. We asked him what he had given his
wife at their marriage. He told us that she had been
very expensive to him during his courtship, having cost
him two pounds weight of tobacco and four or five pints
of brandy."]

"A Painter's Camp in the Highlands" defends the custom of smoking in
the following well chosen words:

"People who don't smoke--especially ladies--are exceedingly
unfair and unjust to those who do. The reader has, I
daresay, amongst his acquaintances ladies who, on hearing
any habitual cigar-smoker spoken of, are always ready to
exclaim against the enormity of such an expensive and
useless indulgence; and the cost of Tobacco-smoking is
generally cited by its enemies as one of the strongest
reasons for its general discontinuance. One would imagine,
to hear these people talk, that smoking was the only
selfish indulgence in the world. When people argue in this
strain, I immediately assume the offensive. I roll back the
tide of war right into the enemy's intrenched camp of
comfortable customs; I attack the expensive and unnecessary
indulgences of ladies and gentlemen who do not smoke. I take
cigar-smoking as an expense of, say, half-a-crown a-day, and
pipe-smoking at threepence.

"I then compare the cost of these indulgences with the cost
of other indulgences not a whit more necessary, which no one
ever questions a man's right to if he can pay for them.
There is luxurious eating, for instance. A woman who has got
the habit of delicate eating will easily consume dainties to
the amount of half-a-crown a-day,