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The Toper's Tripod

Place three tobacco-pipes in the position shown in the engraving, the mouth of the bowls downwards, and the lower end of the stems upon the stem just by the bowls. This tripod, if carefully put together, will support considerably more than a pot of "Lockwood's home-brewed," equally celebrated with the trick.

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