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Updated: May 12, 2025
The anti-temperance mass-meeting was in session; he put his trunk in at a window and washed it out with water from cistern. Some swallowed it since dead; several drowned. Detectives Cross and O'Shaughnessy were passing through town, but going south so missed elephant. Whole region for many miles around in terror people flying from their homes.
Was it possible that Foster could be in earnest? There was no mistake about it every man was at once convinced of this from the vicar down to the most sottish of the anti-temperance gathering. Such a man as Foster would never have come forward in this way had he not had powerful and all-constraining motives to lead him to take such a step.
The faithful partner of his cares had brought a plentiful supply of the anti-temperance fluid in a large flat stone bottle, which looked like a half-gallon jar that had been successfully tapped for the dropsy. ‘You’re a rum chap, you are, Mr. Walker—will you dip your beak into this, sir?’ ‘Thank’ee, sir,’ replied Mr.
"No man's," was the answer of the gentleman in whose office we were sitting "No man's while there are such open doors to ruin as you may find at the 'Sickle and Sheaf. Did not you vote the anti-temperance ticket at the last election?" "I did," was the answer; "and from principle." "On what were your principles based?" was inquired. "On the broad foundations of civil liberty."
I was glad to take advantage of a stoppage and get down to stretch my legs, shake the water off my great-coat, and swallow the usual anti-temperance recipe for keeping out the cold. When I mounted to my seat again, I observed a new parcel lying on the coach roof, which I took to be a rather large fiddle in a brown bag.
He talked loudly, and with a pompous dogmatism mainly on political subjects but talked only from memory; for any one could see, that thought came into but feeble activity. And yet, derationalized, so to speak, as he was, through drink, he had been chosen a representative in Congress, at the previous election, on the anti-temperance ticket, and by a very handsome majority.
That's my opinion in plain English, and I don't propose to pay my dollar in supporting any such anti-temperance institution." Theodore had listened attentively to this conversation, and his blood was roused and boiling. He turned quickly away from the long line of splendid books, and addressed Mr. Cranmer. "I entirely agree with your position, sir," he said, earnestly.
It would have been well if, for months to come, there could have been the same good reason for abstinence, but, as a matter of fact, the very next day some casks were brought into camp, much to the delighted and satisfaction of the anti-temperance party. Finally Dewey fell asleep, but his sleep was a troubled one. He had unthinkingly reclined upon his back, and this generally brought bad dreams.
No longer ago than yesterday, he said, General Sam Wheeler, the popular high school committeeman, looked in to say, that it was getting all over Barnstable, and had very nearly got into the columns of the Patriot, that he had been got down by the evil agency of the anti-temperance men to lecture on a new process of making brandy from crab apples.
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