Note 7 — Front matter (continued 2)
Reading edition
As, according to Mrs. Crowe, ghosts can smoke, and upon equally good authority, spirits can swallow spirits, no doubt this ghost of Mr. Naylor, who did not come without the help of his tailor, took a pipe with his friends, and took something to drink with them also, for you may rely upon it, that the ghost's friends were not smoking a "dry pipe."