I lighted my long crooked pipe, with a painting on it of an idle-looking naiad; then I amused myself watching the process of the conversion of the tobacco into carbon, which was by slow degrees making my naiad into a negress.
Encendí mi larga pipa de espuma, que representaba una náyade voluptuosamente recostada, y me entretuve después en observar cómo el humo iba ennegreciendo mi ninfa de un modo paulatino.