The Pipe

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌‌​⁠"RANDOLPH CRESCENT, N.W.

"MY DEAR PUGH—I hope you will like the pipe which I send with this. It is rather a curious example of a certain school of Indian carving. And is a present from

"Yours truly, Joseph Tress."

It was really very handsome of Tress—very handsome! The more especially as I was aware that to give presents was not exactly in Tress's line. The truth is that when I saw what manner of pip