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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
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Mischief
Tobacco
Pipe
Cleaning
Filling
Smoking
Pipes
Spend
Fooling
Much
Smokers

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