. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . asl our crownsbefore Him, joining in the mighty anthem of praise to Himwho hath subdued all things unto Himself. CHAPTER XXI. WILL IT PAY? — LIFES OPPORTUNITIES—GROTESQUE SCENESAND AMUSING STORIES — ON THE BRINK. Men Who Cannot Understand a Joke— The Little Chap That Told Me ToHoller — First-class Stupidity— Comfortably Full — The StingyDrinker —Drinks Direful Work—Breaking a Mothers Heart — Scenesin a Lunatic Asylum —Raving Idiots — A Tipsy Lover — A Visit to thePig-sty —An Unlooked-for Catastrophe — Another Pig in the Pen—IAm as Good
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . asl our crownsbefore Him, joining in the mighty anthem of praise to Himwho hath subdued all things unto Himself. CHAPTER XXI. WILL IT PAY? — LIFES OPPORTUNITIES—GROTESQUE SCENESAND AMUSING STORIES — ON THE BRINK. Men Who Cannot Understand a Joke— The Little Chap That Told Me ToHoller — First-class Stupidity— Comfortably Full — The StingyDrinker —Drinks Direful Work—Breaking a Mothers Heart — Scenesin a Lunatic Asylum —Raving Idiots — A Tipsy Lover — A Visit to thePig-sty —An Unlooked-for Catastrophe — Another Pig in the Pen—IAm as Good as Any of You — Fighting the Pump — An UnceremoniousTip-over —The Tipsy Students — Decidedly Muddled —Kicking EachOther Out of Bed —A Grotesque Scene — The Indian and His Fire-water— Only This Once —A Clergymans Downfall —A WifesStory — In Jail—Reminiscences of Forty Years Ago — An Appeal toYoung Men —Coach-Driving in California —A Death-bed Scene —ICant Find the Brake — Sowing Wild T depends a great deal moreupon the temperament thanupon the strength of mindor intellect, whether, if you^ follow the drinking customsof society, you become intem-perate. Who are the menmost liable to become drunkards? Ibring before you, for illustration, threemen of the same class in society, asmuch alike as it is possible for threepersons to be who are possessed of different first, cold and phlegmatic, is little affected by aughtsurrounding him. He never laughs at anything. A jokemust be explained for him before he can understand it. Ifyou should tell him you could not drive a joke into him with 423 424 THREE CHEEKS FOE MR. HEXRY. sledge-hammer, sk, ever drive ; 3 ? • un- derstand a joke, he will on himself, like the man whbarn and burnt up f 5. Any e s -and burn uought to be kick .death by a jail: ss— i 11 \should like t . I: you tell him his rem;:. - - funny as the story itself. I once told a man of th
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