It is Sherlock Holmes' pipes, however, that have most captured the public imagination. He used cheap tobacco which, as his companion John Watson observed, produced dense and foul clouds of bluish smoke. Holmes took this common black shag from the toeof a Persian slipper and placed it in one of three types of pipe. When in contemplative mood, he would puff on his old, oily black clay pipe which he regarded as a counsellor and "companion of his deepest meditations". When in a "disputatious rather than...meditative" state ofmind, he would replace this with his long cherrywood pipe. On other occasions, he would use his briar.
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