e confounded all human
science.'

"Soon after the siege of Barcelona, a lady at a fashionable
party took out her snuff-box and offered a pinch to any one
who wished it. Marshal Tesse approached to take a pinch; but
suddenly the lady drew her snuff-box back, saying, 'For you,
Marshal, the snuff is too strong--it is Barcelona.'"

In Scotland the dry kinds of snuff are in favor and are esteemed as
highly as the moister snuffs. Robert Leighton gives the following pen
picture of the snuff-loving Scotchman; it is entitled "The Snuffie
Auld Man:"--

"By the cosie fire-side, or the sun-ends o' gavels,
The snuffie auld bodie is sure to be seen.
Tap, tappin' his snuff-box, he snifters and sneevils,
And smachers the snuff frae his mou' to his een.
'Since tobacco cam' in, and the snuffin' began,
There hasna been seen sic a snuffie auld man.

"His haurins are dozen'd, his een sair bedizzened.
And red round the lids as the gills o' a fish;
His face is a' bladdit, his sark-breest a' smaddit.
As snuffie a picture as ony could wish.
He makes a mere merter o' a' thing he does,
Wi' snuff frae his fingers an' drops frae his nose.

"And wow but his nose is a troublesome member--
Day and nicht, there's nae end to its snuffie desire:
It's wide as the chimlie, it's red as an ember,
And has to be fed like a dry-whinnie fire.
It's a troublesome member, and gi'es him nae peace,
Even sleepin', or eatin', or sayin' the grace.

"The kirk is disturbed wi' his hauckin' and sneezin'
The dominie stoppit when leadin' the psalm;
The minister, deav'd out o' logic and reason,
Pours gall in the lugs that are gapi' for balm.
The auld folks look surly, the young chaps jocose,
While the bodie himsel' is bambazed wi' his nose.

"He scrimps the auld wife baith in garnal and caddy
He snuffs what wad keep her in comfort and ease;
Rapee, Lundyfitt, Prince's Mixture, and Toddy,
She looks upon them as the worst o' her faes.
And we'll see an end o' her kooshian nar
While the auld carle's nose is upheld like a Czar."

Sharp has written some verses founded upon the following singular
anecdote in Dean Ramsay's "Reminiscences of Scottish Life and
Character:"

"The inveterate snuff-taker, like the dram-drinker, felt
severely the being deprived of his accustomed stimulant, as
in the following instance: A severe snow-storm in the
Highlands, which la