Chapter 9

CIGARS.

New York Cigars -- Havana Cigars -- Quality of Havana Cigars -- Relative Value and Size -- Cigar-Makers -- Cuban Cigars -- Cigar Manufactories -- Preparation of the Tobacco -- Sorting the Leaves -- Sales, etc. -- Large Factories -- Universal Smoking -- Cigar Etiquette -- Reveries -- Summer-Day Thoughts -- American Smokers -- At Home -- Sentiment -- Ode to a Cigar -- Cigar-Lighters -- Smoking an Art -- Science of Lighting -- Age of Fusees -- "Home-Made Cigars" -- Female Cigar-Makers -- A Spicy Article -- How to Smoke -- Smoking Christians -- Lamb's Poem -- Tobacco Compliment -- Cigarette Smoking -- Thomas Hood's Cigar -- Lord Byron's Opinion -- Kinds of Cigars -- Selecting Cigars -- Yara Cigars -- Manilla Cigars -- Swiss Cigars -- Paraguay Cigars -- Brazilian Cigars -- American Cigars -- Connecticut Seed Leaf and Havana Cigars -- The Exile's Comfort........... 259