. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . ps of my fingers with a new,strange, delightfully exhilarating sensation. I have been ina club-room when the wine has passed from one to the other,and we have felt ourselves great men presently, with plentyof money in our pockets when we really had hardly enoughto pay our board-bill. One man said to another, Look here, if you want toborrow a thousand dollars in your business, come down tomy office and I shall be very happy to lend it you. Theman thought he could use a thousand dollars admirably, andhe went to his friend the next morning
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . ps of my fingers with a new,strange, delightfully exhilarating sensation. I have been ina club-room when the wine has passed from one to the other,and we have felt ourselves great men presently, with plentyof money in our pockets when we really had hardly enoughto pay our board-bill. One man said to another, Look here, if you want toborrow a thousand dollars in your business, come down tomy office and I shall be very happy to lend it you. Theman thought he could use a thousand dollars admirably, andhe went to his friend the next morning and said, You told 180 GRATUITOUS ADVICE. me if I came to your office, you could Let me have it thous dollars to use in my business. Did I ? Yes. WI havent got it now, but I may have it by night. I hionce of a man who, in a wretched, dilapidated condition, was looking at the launch of a ship. Sonic of the owners held a consultation. and thought the ship had better r e- main on the stocks two or three days longer. One of them said, I should be unwilling. poor, miser-able fellowcame u p,with histrousers shin-ing with olda g e, bootsbroken, and hat battered, and said : Let her slide. / will take tin respon-sibility Yes. there is a gratification, an exhilaration, anexcitemenl produced by the drink. Any mistakes in thecabinet, send for one of us; we will reconcile all ques-tions to the satisfaction of all parties, foreign nations in-cluded. When we were half drunk, beautiful visions passed LET HEIi CHASING A BUBBLE. 18] before us, and we only wanted the canvas and the pencilto immortalize ourselves. There is a gratification in drink-in «-. What is it? It is the gratification of intoxication. Men talk about enjoyment in drinking! There is reallynone. It is merely momentary and imaginary. No manever received satisfaction enough in wicked pursuits to say, Ah, now I am happy! It is gone from him. All theenjoyments that can be obtained in this world, apart fromthe enjoyments G
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