. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . front of us stopped, stood up, cried out, Halt,halt! Look at the grog-shops closed at sun-dowm Thirty-five years I ve lived in this town and I never saw a sightlike that. I ve seen drunkards go in at one door as afuneral started from the other. Three cheers for cold gave the cheers, and the ex-dramsellers came out andhelped us. At the meeting, all went on well. There was a class of young men in the town who looked with a great deal of contempt on every moral movement. You will find such young men everywhere. They have no contem
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . front of us stopped, stood up, cried out, Halt,halt! Look at the grog-shops closed at sun-dowm Thirty-five years I ve lived in this town and I never saw a sightlike that. I ve seen drunkards go in at one door as afuneral started from the other. Three cheers for cold gave the cheers, and the ex-dramsellers came out andhelped us. At the meeting, all went on well. There was a class of young men in the town who looked with a great deal of contempt on every moral movement. You will find such young men everywhere. They have no contempt for a horse-race or prize-fight, for the new fashion 81 iOS MAKING A CATS PAW OF DRUNKEN JAKE. of a coat, or hat, >r {air of boots, and there is a large amountof intellectual power often wasted by them in the appreciationand description of this sort of thing. Some of them givetheir whole mind, or what they call their mind, to the ar-rangement of a necktie or the cultivation of their , the young gentlemen in this town who thought a. I c ? ~DBUNKEN JAKE. moral movement so much beneath them did not hesitate to in-duce a poor drunkard to come and disturb the meeting. After1 had delivered my speech, which was to the intemperate,the poor drunkard stood up, and I have seldom heard such aspeech as he made. The young men were looking on. t • ? set; the sport, and were rubbing their hands with greatglee, lie said: Look here, Ive got a bottle of liquor inmy pocket and they have given me half a dollar, that is, they BURNING THE MONKEYS FINGERS. 509 said they would — thern s the fellows up there [pointing tothem] ; they gave me a bottle of liquor and said they wouldgive me half a dollar if I would come to this meeting, andevery now and then pull out the cork, and say, Mr. Gough,here s your very good health. Young men, you may keepyour money ; I shant do it. He went out, and we heard abottle smash on the steps. Then he came in and said to theaudience, I have been ca
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