. Shaggycoat; the biography of a beaver . he first preacher in Fal-mouth, Mass., now Portland, Maine. When hebegan to preach, Portland was almost a wilder-ness, and his congregation was very pioneers of New England were devoutmen and women, and their first work in a newsettlement was to establish a Smiths people soon built the FirstParish Church, and later they added a finetall steeple, which the young parson used towatch as it slowly grew in height, as thoughits mission were to point like a guiding handtoward heaven. There was an unhappy thing about buildingin
. Shaggycoat; the biography of a beaver . he first preacher in Fal-mouth, Mass., now Portland, Maine. When hebegan to preach, Portland was almost a wilder-ness, and his congregation was very pioneers of New England were devoutmen and women, and their first work in a newsettlement was to establish a Smiths people soon built the FirstParish Church, and later they added a finetall steeple, which the young parson used towatch as it slowly grew in height, as thoughits mission were to point like a guiding handtoward heaven. There was an unhappy thing about buildingin those days: the men who were employed inshipyards, or to build houses or churches, orto do various kinds of carpenter work, weregiven a drink of rum, whisky, or brandv, twiceduring the day. At eleven oclock in the morn-ing and at four oclock in the afternoon, a gong-would strike, when the men would stop workin a hurry and go and get their grog. Amongthe old records of what it cost to build thefirst church in Portland, we find some bills. H VI X c 1/3 a . I • CHINA 81 which seem strange enough in these da}Ts whenmany employers will not allow any but totalabstainers to wrork for them. Here is an exactcopy of one bill: Falmouth, Oct. 30th, of rum and sfagar Capt. Isaac Illslyhad of me for the people that worked on thesteeple in the Fnst Parish in Falmouth. To 11 gallons and one half rum at 4s per gallon £ To 8 pounds sugar at 8 pence 5A. Another bill reads: Account of rum and sugar to workmenbuilding steeple, Deacon Benjamin Titcomb,Chairman of Building Committee, 1760-1761-Summing bill for sundry accounts for sugarand rum used at the raising £ In another account it is stated that 877mugs (that means mugs of liquor) were usedwhile building the steeple. The boys and girls of today are learningwhat these good people of the olden time didnot realize, that alcoholic drinks injure the 82 CHINA brain, the nerves, the muscles, the heart, andthousands of li
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