11.   But to devote an entire book to cigar papers, those outrageously colorful labels and bands that adorn cigars and cigar boxes?

12.   Cigar boxes were made of fine woods like mahogany and cedar, and whittlers loved them.

13.   For example, he carries a cigar box filled with cash under his arm as if it were the last canteen in the desert.

14.   Germans designed elaborate labels for cigar boxes.

15.   He keeps his cigars in a wooden cigar box with sponges to keep them moist.

16.   He taught himself on a homemade guitar made from wire and a cigar box.

17.   His neighbors collected money in cigar boxes for his operations.

18.   I once made a great jewelry box for my mother out of a cigar box.

19.   If they fell from favor I put them in the cigar box.

20.   Instead, I was told he was the only boy among all the names in that cigar box who later went to prison.