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We are greatly indebted to old German woodcuts for solid information anent details of Habits & customs of the 16th.Century which our own people have not handed down to us, take for instance “Hans Sachs.” Book of Trades. Had smoking been in vogue in his day he would have given it—or rather Jost Ammon would have illustrated it so here in1616 ·A·Dwe find a Sturdy German, blowing a tremendous cloud. It is taken from an old work now in Frankfurt—viz
“Völler Von Gellhausen (ULRICUS).”Das ist“Ein. Blumenbuck.”Small Folio.Franckfurtam Mayne.M. Weixner. Formscheider und Mahler.A·D 1616.