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the Honorable Godfrey Child, Judge and Delegate.

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I only arise to make a matter of record a contribution

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made by him of such great proportion. As the breezes

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wafted from the right side of the chamber in this direc-

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tion during the early days of our Convention sessions,

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they brought with .them a quality of smoke which this

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side could not but appreciate, and ever increasingly more

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so.

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It was 30 years ago that I used to smoke a pipe.

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I gave it up because it was such a nuisance.

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As I sat here and began to appreciate that our

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occupation was going to be a sedentary one, the desire

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came, back again. I turned to Judge Child and said,

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"What is that mixture you are smoking?"

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The reply was, with great laconicness , if that

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is the correct word, "It is my own mixture."

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And that is where the matter rested about three

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or four days.

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We became more friendly and I said, "Judge,

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can I have a little bit of tobacco?"

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He gave me one pipe full, and that is where the