FURBALLS AND THEIR WELL-BEING

It stands to reason that marmots, prairie dogs, and other short globular creatures, will often prefer tobacco pipes with striking shapes that express their inner risk-taking human. Such as, for instance, fine briars made by the Kriswill company in Denmark. An enterprise which was founded in the fifties, closed its doors in the mid-seventies, and though the brand continued to be made by a Spanish company till the eighties, has now largely disappeared from view.
To the sadness and lament of furballs everywhere.

Like this handsome intellectual fellow.

Who may be puffing Samuel Gawith's Brown Rope No. 4. As an ironic comment on the damned hobbit wannabees thronging the streets yesterday ("Hobbit Day"), with their Old Toby smoldering in their stupid Gandalf pipes.

Samuel Gawith's Brown Rope No. 4 is NOT for kiddies!

Brown Rope No. 4 is milder than the Black XX, but that's not saying much. It took me less than a year to decide that I was not going to finish the tin and chuck it -- no inclination to jar it for a rainy day -- and despite the pipe above which I own looking remarkably like mister Marmot's favourite pipe (it might be the same), I have as a matter of principle forsworn further experiments with rope.

My Kriswills do not need the frustration or abuse.

The main problem with Brown Rope No. 4 is that although it is a well-made good tobacco product, it hits the medulla oblongata like a tonne of bricks if you're not careful.
Besides leaving the room smelling like old stogey.

It is full, creamy, and slightly sweet. The Kentucky firecured gives it a perfumy depth that goes well with black coffee. Driving while huffing this is ill-advised. It didn't wallop me nearly as much as Peterson's Perfect Plug -- another one of those extremely butch manly tobaccos favoured by hairy savages with small endowment issues -- but any wallops are not why I smoke. Speaking of which, I recently bought another tin of HH Old Dark Fired, because despite the bucket-load of nicotine, that stuff is soft and smooth and can be deeply satisfying.
I gave a tin to a friend once and I haven't seen him since.

No. 4 is good tobacco. An excellent product.
Black coffee. Not tea. No machinery.

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