School: Gowna
- Location:
- Scrabby, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Hugh Murray
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0986, Page 120
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“A very old custom here was passing the pipe.”
(continued from previous page)tell me why he believed this and he explained thus:-
(1) The pipe must be broken in or smoked out when new.
(2) It must be always kept clean
(3) And most important regulate the "BLAST" When you see an old man smoking it is only at rare intervals he pulls. He barely keeps the pipe alive, draws an old blast and fills in the intervals with interesting conversation. The smoker of today is blasting all the time, and his smoking conversation is only a series of interjections
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“My wife is my wife but my pipe is my comfort.”
My wife is my wife but my pipe is my comfort. (Old Saying). (no title)
“Pipe smoking was common here among old women of the last generation.”
Pipe smoking was common here among the old women of the last generation