Tobacco—it is Awful!
The Juice will Quickly make you Sick
If once you get your Maw Full.
He never ceased having discussions with himself over the wording or authorship of the famous lines attributed to "Little Robert Reed," as in the following:
Lo and behold! This is the way the St. Louis Republican mangles an old, quaint, beautiful, and popular poem:
"I would not use tobacco," said
Little Robert Reed.
"I would not use tobacco, for
'Tis a nasty weed."
We protest against this brutal mutilization of a grand old classic. The quatrain should read, as in the original, thus: