A Haunted Pipe

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 One of the interesting things about most any estate pipe is that a previous owner is more than likely deceased.  Thursdays I save for my Gettysburg pipe that I affectionately say is haunted.  Not that I believe this, but that in a way it’s kind of fun to believe it is.  The bowl has a hand carved into it and whenever I smoke this pipe, I create stories about it in my head.

I often wonder about the person who carved a four finger hand into it and often why four fingers instead of five.  I believe the carving was made by a Civil War soldier who lost a finger in the war.  But that is my story about it.  The history of the pipe is long gone.  So, I create my own stories about it.  

I could take it to a psychic that might tell me her own story about it and could give me a name.  But I don’t believe in that stuff.  I can do just as well on my own.  I have decided it was carved and owned by a civil war soldier who lost his pinky finger in the war.  Then he passed the pipe down to his son who then after his death some member of the family took the pipe to the consignment shop where I bought it for $30.  

It is one of my best smoking pipes.  So, that’s the story of my haunted Gettysburg pipe.  Is it haunted?  It might be as any estate pipe could be haunted.  But the history of it is what is haunted.  I just have no idea, but it is a favorite and I’m smoking it today with some Lavish English pipe tobacco.  My coffee this morning is Organic Ethiopian coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.  

Dave

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