For a bloke born in 1879 he must've written it by the time he was 21. I wonder if he preferred smoking Pall Mall or Dunhill (that company was formed in 1893). Perhaps Blend (formed in 1971).
I learned as a kid, that it was Lewis Carrol of Alice in Wonderland fame who created it and for reasons unknown cigarette brand names were changed because the originals no longer exist (hence Blend). (Don't you hate nit-pickers.)
