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St. Charles (Illinois) Review, Jan. 10, 1880
Frank, Dite's little boy, had an important experience the other day. He smoked his first tobacco cigarette. Now he ways he will smoke no more until he is of age. He is not at all anxious for tobacco, and as we hav some space, we must tell his experience. He saw some one smoking a cubebs cigarette and having tested it, pronounced it good. He then bored Dite increasingly, till the proud spirit of the latter was overcome, and thereupon he started for Zabriskie's (drug store) and bought a package of "Lone Fisherman" cigarettes and a meerschaum cigar holder. The he gave them to Frank and the latter started off "big as life." He lit one and went up to call on Ira Minard. He was much admired by Ira, who wanted to smoke immediately. By and by Frank began to get white about the gills and he started for home. When Dite went home at supper-time, he found Frank lying on the lounge, looking very penitent as well as very wise. Through much patient suffering, he has been led to believe that tobacco was not good for young boys. "Pa, said he, I shan't smoke any more until I get to be a young man."
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