Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1911 — Had to Have His Smoke. [ARTICLE]

Had to Have His Smoke.

A. C. Benson, son of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, tells the following story of Charles Kingsley in the Cornhill: “My father used to tell how once he was walking with Kingsley round about Eversley when Kingsley suddenly stopped and said, ‘lt is no use; I know you detest tobacco, Benson, but I must have a smoke,* and he had accordingly gone to a big furae bush and put his arm In at a hole, and after some groping about produced a big churchwarden pipe, which he filled and smoked with great satisfaction, afterward putting It Into a hollbw tree and telling my father with a chuckle that he had concealed pipes all over the parish to meet the exigencies of a sudden desire to smoke.'*