Here I am a mile from the North Pole and no cigarettes / Silas.

Nine panel cartoon shows four men near the North Pole desperate for a cigarette. The final panel shows a man waking up from the nightmare and smoking a cigarette.

Cartoon is a precursor for McCay's long running comic strip "Curse of the Rarebit Fiend." See Winsor McCay, his life and art /John Canemaker. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2005, p. 79.