Of course, I see that the mouth-piece is loose, but a piece of blotting-paper would remedy that.
His meerschaum is not such a good one as Jimmy's.

Though Jimmy's boastfulness about his meerschaum was hard to bear, none of us ever denied the pipe's worth.

The man through the wall has not a cherry-wood stem to his meerschaum, and consequently it is too light.

A ring has been worn into the palm of his left hand, owing to his tapping the meerschaum there, and it is as marked as Jimmy's ring, for, though Jimmy tapped more strongly, the man through the wall has to tap oftener.
What I chiefly dislike about the man through the wall is his treatment of his clay.

A clay, I need scarcely say, has an entirely different tap from a meerschaum, but the man through the wall does not treat these two pipes as if they were on an equality.