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Later, when parting with Frank for good, he said: 'I have a long journey before me, and I have got to make up my mind in that time in what useful capacity I shall figure in Darnstable teetotal circles, whether as a shining light or a shocking example whether, in short, it is better to live respectable or die drunk.
Hence the comparative success of the teetotal pledge; because to a man who had nothing it sets at least a negative aim in life. Somewhat as prisoners beguile their days by taming a spider, the reformed drunkard makes an interest out of abstaining from intoxicating drinks, and may live for that negation.
This is a terrible statement, and one that seems to excuse a great deal of what is called 'teetotal fanaticism. The rest, in his view, owe their fall to misfortune of various kinds, which often in its turn leads to flight to the delusive and destroying solace of drink. Thus about 25 per cent of the total have been afflicted with sickness or acute domestic troubles.
The deftness and skill with which the girl handled the horse she rode forced a smile of admiration to the lips of the Ramblin' Kid. She sat close in the saddle and a glance showed she was a born master of horses. "She's a wonder," he said to himself, "a teetotal wonder " A shade of melancholy passed over his face.
"I never heard of that before," remarked Frank. "No, I don't suppose, sir, as ever you did. And then there's the teetotal gents; they does it much more free and easy. "A pretty picture you have drawn," laughed Frank. "I'm afraid there's not much chance of making you an abstainer." "Nor you neither, Mr Frank, I hope.
"I think we are either above or below our camp," said Snap. "Or else on the same side of the lake that we started from," said Whopper. "It would be just our luck to get completely twisted in this teetotal darkness. It's worse than a pocket in a coal mine!" They paddled back to the others and told them of what they had discovered.
"Do un good," growled Joey, who was directing the spray from the branch so as to spread it over as many leaves as possible. "Make un teetotal, Smiler." "Ha, ha!" chuckled the man with the buckets; "deal o' teetotal about you, Joey. Make yale taste, though, won't it?" "Na-a-a-ay! Rain'll wash it all off in no time, Smiler. There, fetch some more." "All very fine, Joey; but its wa-arm down here.
There are other what I will call specialist old-style traders besides those in the teetotal and unteetotal line to which I wish to refer. But these must be reserved for another chapter.
And above all, in what terms shall we paint the surprise, the wonder, the astonishment with which they listened to the music of the teetotal band, which, as if by magic, had been formed in the town of Drumnabogue, where, only a few months before, the meeting of which we have spoken had been held.
I can't keep away from it much longer, and this march'll see the end of my teetotal ways, I'm thinking. 'And won't my Captain help you? 'I'm not a hand at prayers and psalm-singing. 'I wish you'd talk to Mr. Upton; he made me enlist a short time ago, and I've been ever so much happier since I did it.
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