Tennyson's passion for a "long piper
Is well known. Tba story that be
never smoked tbe same pipe twice
can be dismissed, for, like all smokers,
ha detested new pipes. He enter*
tatned tha liveliest hatred of Flor
ence because he canid not get any
decant tobacco there, and on this ac*
count promptly returned home. Carlyle,
describing Tennyson, said: “Smokes
Infinite tobacco.” His devotion to the
herb became so Intense that literally
be could not exist without ft On one
occasion, at a soiree of the Royal so
ciety, he declared he must -have-a pipe.
A friend said he should smoke up the
chimney of the library or on the root.
