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Used to sell very good candy an' a variety of temperance drinks, includin' a special brew of lemon squash, of which delectable beverage I've consumed some quarts." "That's the man," resumed Isa. "But 'tain't just c'rrect ter call Sanson prosperous. Thar's a heap of competition in the temp'rance drink line, an' the retailin' of candy don't represent a gold mine.
They were in time for the first train going to Exeter, and Helmsley, changing one of his five-pound notes at the railway station, took a third-class ticket to that place. Then he paid the promised half-crown to his friendly driver, with an extra threepence for a morning "dram," whereat the waggoner chuckled. "Thankee! I zee ye be no temp'rance man!" Helmsley smiled. "No.
But wot I sez is, we'se all a bit o' devil in us, an' we can't be temp'rance ivry which way. An' zo, if not the glass, then the gel! Har ar ar! Good-day t' ye, an' thank ye kindly!" He went off then, and a few minutes later the train came gliding in.
"By temp'rance folks doin' somethin' beside talkin'," replied the drunkard.
Our greatest gains begin to be a fact in the soul before we have any mental conception of them! The next day Ann was up early. The men who were passing early saw her action, and she told them that she had "turned temp'rance." She washed the bottles, and set them upside down before the house to dry where all the world might see them.
"I mean that I didn't know that you was him the man that sold my father this place, an' lied to him about the vineyard told him they was raisin-grapes, an' they wasn't an' you knowed he was a temp'rance man, a prohibitionist. An' him tryin' to grub 'em out, an' gettin' sick an' bein' so patient, an' never hurtin' nobody " she ended in a wild, angry sob that seemed to swallow up her voice.
"There!" says Peter T., waving the advertisement and crowing gladsome; "they'll take to that like your temp'rance aunt to brandy cough-drops. We'll have to put up barbed wire to keep 'em off." "Humph!" grunts Cap'n Jonadab. "Anybody but a born fool'll know there ain't any shooting down here this time of year." Peter looked at him sorrowful.
"Well, then," began Rokens, with great deliberation, "it was on a Vednesday night as it happened. I had bin out at supper with a friend that night, and we'd had a glass or two o' grog; for ye see, lads, it was some years ago, afore I tuk to temp'rance.
Then he heard Rose's voice from the next room: "... and 'e's taken everything, 'e 'as. All the silver candlesticks and the plate what was give to master by the Temp'rance Society, and Master Jeremy's mug what he 'ad at 'is christening and all the knives and forks 'e 'as and the gold clock out o' the drorin'-room, and the mess!
Temp'rance also, is on this house imposed, And whoso has it not, is greatly nosed By standers by, for greedy, lustful men: Nor can all we can say, excuse us, when Intemp'rance any where to them shall be Apparent; though we other vices flee. Temperance, the mother is of moderation, The beauty also of our conversation.
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