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The love of money, in the slow process of accumulation, had been awakened; and, in ministering to the depraved appetites of men who loved drink and neglected their families, she saw a quicker mode of acquiring the gold she coveted. And so the dram-shop was opened. And what was the result? The husband quit going to church.
Ho! ho! It was with a very melancholy laugh that Newman Noggs concluded this soliloquy; and it was with a very melancholy shake of the head, and a very rueful countenance, that he turned about, and went plodding on his way. This, under ordinary circumstances, would have been to some small tavern or dram-shop; that being his way, in more senses than one.
In going to the poor man's district, Chester was obliged to pass one of those majestic old elms which our forefathers planted, still to be found here and there scattered over the great city. This elm stood on a corner, and beneath its great pendent branches a small dram-shop desecrated the soil which gave nourishment to the brave old forest tree.
I remember one case, where a woman, with a sober, church-going husband, opened a dram-shop. The husband opposed, remonstrated, begged, threatened but all to no purpose. The wife, by working for the clothing stores, had earned and saved about three hundred dollars.
Only God can furnish the statistics of sorrow, poverty, disease, vice and crime, begotten by this fearful consumption of strong drink. "Under these discouraging circumstances, men of Massachusetts, we appeal to you! The licensed dram-shop is the creature of political action. We are wholly destitute of political power, by which it must be overthrown.
The dram-shop seemed to be full, for he could see the shadows of several men passing to and fro behind the murky windows, and when the door opened to let out a woman, who passed him with a small pitcher in her hand, he saw that many others were left within the building.
He turned the corner to the left, into Prototchny Alley, and passing by the whole length of the house and the gate, he disappeared through the door of the tavern. Two gates and several doors open on Prototchny Alley: those belonging to a tavern, a dram-shop, and several eating and other shops. This is the Rzhanoff fortress itself.
There is a flower shop not far off, but it isn't a shop, it's a bower. It is close by a dram-shop, where the cab-men of the stand opposite refresh the inner man. It represents the British public-house. But what a quiet orderly place it is! The kettle of punch a silver one is suspended over the counter.
My conductor hesitated he moved towards the meeting-house, but his head was turned the other way he stopped. "Ralph," said he, "did you not see Mr Ford go into the public-house?" "No, father," said I; "don't think he's up." "At all bounds, we had better go and see; for I must not allow him to shame a decent house by tippling, on a Sunday morning, in a dram-shop." We entered.
'Tis the demon Sidragasum who hath the power to make wenches dance stark naked." "By the mass!" interrupted Jehan, "I should like to be the demon Sidragasum." Meanwhile, the vagabonds continued to arm themselves and whisper at the other end of the dram-shop. "That poor Esmeralda!" said a Bohemian. "She is our sister. She must be taken away from there."
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