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"There's stuff put i' the beer what the brewers brew, as is enough to knock the strongest man silly. I'm just fair tired o' hearin' o' Temp'rance this an' Temp'rance that, while 'arf the men as goes to Parl'ment takes their livin' out o' the brewin' o' beer an' spiritus liquors.
'Ere's for 'alf a pint to drink my health, but I can't do it. And I dare say as it were them temp'rance scrupils like as brought 'im to 'is end." At these tender recollections of Giannoli the good lady quite broke down. "To think that it was I as let you that very shop two years last Christmas, and that pore Mr.
"Saucy Willow is up by the damaged rag-stick buck lendin' a mouthful or two of cl'ar, bell-like alto yelps to the harmony of the evenin'. Bill who's a wonder in feathers an' bells, an' whose colour-scheme would drive a temp'rance lecturer to drink, while zippin' about in the moonlight gets his eye on her.
Now I'll tell you what it is; you needn't think that the people who are respectable but not religious will have anything more to do with us, even in the off-hand way that they've had to do with us before now. Father's settled all that for us. Now the only thing we've got to do is to turn religious. We're going to be temp'rance, and never touch a game of cards.
Under the Euripides was the piled up manuscript of Rickman's great neo-classic drama, Helen in Leuce. He implored Spinks to read it. "There," he said, "rea' that. Tha's the sor' o' thing I write when I'm drunk. Couldn' do it now t' save my life. Temp'rance been my ruin." He threw himself on his bed.
Or, in a Winter dusk up to the westward, where old Mrs. Paine scuttled about under the mackerel-twine of her chicken-pen: "Land alive, it's all very well to talk Temp'rance, and I'm not denying it'd be a mercy for some folks I ain't mentioning no names not even Miah White's. But, land sakes how you going to talk Temp'rance to a man bereft and be-fooled like Joshua Blake?
"She's put out because you told a story makin' light of drinkin' punch. She belongs to all the temp'rance societies doin' business, you know." "No; I didn't know." "And she says none of her church 'll vote for you after your countenancin' such a cryin' sin." "Her list of cardinal sins is extensive." "Yep," agreed William. "Won't even let me play my fiddle in the house. Says it's a vanity."
An' the sorrer of a drunkard's home can be talked about 'till the Dictionary runs dry, an' then ye don't know nothin' 'bout it. But hain't none of ye ever laughed 'bout lockin' the stable door after the hoss is stolen? That's just what this temp'rance meetin' an' all the others comes to." A general and rather indignant murmur of dissent ran through the audience.
"'As a troo Southern yooth, who feels for his strugglin' country, I loathes them Yankees to the limit, an' has no more use for 'em than Huggins has for a temp'rance lecturer. "'One day a troop of reb cavalry jumps into the village, an' stampedes these yere invaders plumb off the scene.
"That's Mr Dalton, the young banker, as takes such a lift o' the temp'rance coffee-taverns an' Blue-Ribbon movement." "He's comin'-to, sir!" exclaimed a voice eagerly. This had reference to little Billy, whose eyelids had been seen to quiver, and who presently heaved a sigh. "Fetch my coat," said Dalton. "He will indeed be restored, thank God." The big ulster was brought.
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