The temperance tales : twenty-one thrilling stories : founded on fact . ggood; and it has been sufficiently acknowledged, that theyhave accomplished their object, in no ordinary degree. Hun-dreds of thousands have already been scattered over theearth. Editions have been published in England and Scot-land, and several of these tales have been translated into theGerman language. Editions have also been printed atBotany Bay, and at Madras, in South India. The perusal ofsome one of these narratives is well known to have turnedthe hearts of many persons of intemperate habits, fromdrunkenness and sl
The temperance tales : twenty-one thrilling stories : founded on fact . ggood; and it has been sufficiently acknowledged, that theyhave accomplished their object, in no ordinary degree. Hun-dreds of thousands have already been scattered over theearth. Editions have been published in England and Scot-land, and several of these tales have been translated into theGerman language. Editions have also been printed atBotany Bay, and at Madras, in South India. The perusal ofsome one of these narratives is well known to have turnedthe hearts of many persons of intemperate habits, fromdrunkenness and sloth, to temperance and industry. Manyyears have passed since their first publication, in separatenumbers. It may not be uninteresting to the children ofparents^ once intemperate, to cast their eyes upon thosepages, whose influence, under the blessing of Heaven, haspreserved them from a miserable orphanage. The publisherconfidently hopes that the circulation of the TemperanceTales will greatly tend, as it ever has done, to the advance-ment of the reformation. W. S. V,. MY MOTHERS GOLD RING. Thu ia ths first of a series of stories, of which it possibly may be the be^nin* and the inoiden., which is the foundation of the following tale, was communicated to the writer, bjr»Talaed friend, as a fact, with the name of the principal character. Another friend, to whom th«manuscript was Jiven, perceiving some advantage in its publication, has thousht proper to give itto the world, as >fumber One ; from which I infer, that I am expected to write a Number Two. Th«hint may be worth takinsr, at some leisure moment. In the mean time, pray read Number One : iican do you no harm : there is nothing sectarian^ about it. When you have read it, if, among allyour connections and friends, vou can think of none, whom its perusal may possibly benefit âand itWill be strange if you cannot âdo me the favor to present it to the first litile boy that you meet. H»will, no doubt, take
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