. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . I WILL FIGHT YOU TO LOVERS OF THE WEED. 595 Every time he wanted it, he would take it out and talk to was six or eight weeks before he could throw it away, andfeel easy. But he said the glory of the victory repaid himfur his struo-o-le. CO AVe are told that it is harder to give up tobacco than it isto give up drink. It may be in certain cases. Here is a youngman, for instance: Charley, havea glass of ale ? No, I don t carefor it; I 11 take a cigar/ And ifa man drinks his glass of ale onlyonce or twice a week, but takescigars eight


. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . I WILL FIGHT YOU TO LOVERS OF THE WEED. 595 Every time he wanted it, he would take it out and talk to was six or eight weeks before he could throw it away, andfeel easy. But he said the glory of the victory repaid himfur his struo-o-le. CO AVe are told that it is harder to give up tobacco than it isto give up drink. It may be in certain cases. Here is a youngman, for instance: Charley, havea glass of ale ? No, I don t carefor it; I 11 take a cigar/ And ifa man drinks his glass of ale onlyonce or twice a week, but takescigars eight or ten times aday, he has the tobacco ap-petite, and it will be harderfor that man togive up the ci- ^gars and the S i W . > S/7L. A TOUGH PATIENT. tobacco thanthe drink. Thelove of tobaccois a very stronglove; you knowthat. Ay, andso do I. A phy-sician in Halifax told me that he had a patient who would usetobacco. Tobacco is killing you, he said to him. It madeno difference ; he smoked his pipe still. At last a tobacco-cancer came upon his lip. Now, said the physician, youare feeding that by your tobacco. No use ; he would operation was performed, and a painful one, ajid, said thephysician, I told him I would call in next morning ; and,twenty-four hours after that operation, I found him propped upin bed, with his face bound up on one side, and a pipe in the 596 AN UNFORTUNATE SMOKER. other side of his mouth. Some years since I was acquaintedwith a young man, doing a line business in one of our largecities, who smoked incessantly. lie told me that lie usedfrom twenty to twenty-five cigars each day. He generallysmoked one or two before breakfast, and often smoked afterhe went to lied. I told him, then, th


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