# The Cigarette — Travel Essays character guide

> The Cigarette in Travel Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Cigarette, Pedlars The Cigarette

**First appearance:** 0008-pont-sur-sambre-we-are-pedlars

## Who they are

A peddler or character met on the canal journey.

## Relationships

### [The Arethusa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/characters/the_arethusa)

_friendship_

The Arethusa and The Cigarette share a companionable relationship, possibly as fellow travelers or allies.

### [Mr. Commissary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/characters/mr_commissary)

_professional_

Mr. Commissary and The Cigarette have a formal, possibly supervisory relationship.

## In the story

### [To Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson, Bart.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/to-sir-walter-grindlay-simpson-bart)

The dedicatee, addressed as 'my dear Cigarette', who shared in the rains and portages of the voyage.

### [Antwerp to Boom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/antwerp-to-boom)

Launches into the water from Antwerp docks.

### [On the Willebroek Canal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/on-the-willebroek-canal)

The other canoe, equipped with an Etna cooking apparatus that proves troublesome during the shore lunch.

### [The Royal Sport Nautique](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/the-royal-sport-nautique)

The other canoeist; he has rowed in the past but now disowns it, and is anxious about being asked to row in an eight.

### [At Maubeuge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/at-maubeuge)

Nearly arrested for allegedly drawing the fortifications, a feat he is incapable of.

### [On the Sambre Canalised: To Quartes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/on-the-sambre-canalised-to-quartes)

Travels with the narrator; engages in chaffing talk with children along the towpath.

### [Pont-sur-Sambre: We Are Pedlars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/pont-sur-sambre-we-are-pedlars)

Travels with the narrator; waxes lyrical about country scenes and shares in the pedlar experience.

### [On the Sambre Canalised: To Landrecies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/on-the-sambre-canalised-to-landrecies)

Travels with the narrator; wears a mackintosh and dryly comments on the narrator's behavior.

### [At Landrecies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/at-landrecies)

Grows sleepy after the café and returns to the hotel; expounds the Poor Laws at the Judge's supper.

### [Sambre and Oise Canal: Canal Boats](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/sambre-and-oise-canal-canal-boats)

Travels with the narrator; comments on the barking dogs as like a menagerie; imagined playing flageolet and singing psalms in their canal-boat retirement.

### [The Oise in Flood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/the-oise-in-flood)

Traveling companion who jokes about the narrator's shivering and compares a ploughman to a toy Burns.

### [Origny Sainte-Benoîte: A By-Day](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/origny-sainte-beno-te-a-by-day)

The Cigarette accompanies the narrator, works on his rigging, and observes the girls' modesty.

### [Down the Oise: To Moy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/down-the-oise-to-moy)

Suffers a strange seizure of lying, claiming adventures in Norway where he has never been.

### [La Fère of Cursed Memory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/la-f-re-of-cursed-memory)

Travels with the narrator; reacts with indignation and then pity after being refused lodging.

### [Down the Oise: Through the Golden Valley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/down-the-oise-through-the-golden-valley)

The narrator's companion, amused by the narrator's reactions to the rain.

### [Down the Oise: To Compiègne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/down-the-oise-to-compi-gne)

Acts as spokesman with aplomb, handling the landlady with a dull, positive manner.

### [At Compiègne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/at-compi-gne)

Shares the narrator's enthusiasm for the mechanical clock figures on the town hall, despite pretending to despise it.

### [Changed Times](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/changed-times)

The Cigarette is the narrator's companion on the canoe trip; they share gastronomical fancies and the experience of the river's changing character.

### [Epilogue to An Inland Voyage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/epilogue-to-an-inland-voyage)

The more elegant and philosophical companion, who carries a volume of Michelet, is arrested briefly but released due to his respectable appearance and passport.

## Links

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