. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . on! it is coming, doctoi:. 554 BEGGING FOE ONE SPOONFUL I know is coming. // — is— coming —noiv—doctor. Oh,doctor, I have felt great spiders drawing their soft bodieswith hairy legs all over my tare and creeping into my Hies have been buzzing in my ears and crawling intomy nostrils. Ah! ah! They — an -coming — now/ And. ON JUST \ SPOON ill m holding him in Ins agony. Forten davs and ten nights he suf-fered unutterable torments. He got on his feel at last. The third day after he was able to ? •in of his bed he walked into


. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . on! it is coming, doctoi:. 554 BEGGING FOE ONE SPOONFUL I know is coming. // — is— coming —noiv—doctor. Oh,doctor, I have felt great spiders drawing their soft bodieswith hairy legs all over my tare and creeping into my Hies have been buzzing in my ears and crawling intomy nostrils. Ah! ah! They — an -coming — now/ And. ON JUST \ SPOON ill m holding him in Ins agony. Forten davs and ten nights he suf-fered unutterable torments. He got on his feel at last. The third day after he was able to ? •in of his bed he walked into the street, feeble and shaken, leaning on two sticks. He wenl into a saloon and said: Give me a tables] nful of brandy, just a spoonful. I nerd it very badly. Dont tell an}rbody about it. Only just a spoonful. Ineed it. The man gave it, and Now, said that father, heis dying in such agony that his family cannot look upon him. CONQUERING THE ENEMY. 355 What do you think of an appetite like that ? What do youthink of a power like that ? Let men break that! I tell youthat it requires great strength of mind, great firmness of pur-pose, and great decision of character to do it. Thank God,we have thousands in our ranks who have burst the fettersthat bound them, who have trampled their enemy under foot,and who stand to-day free from the damning influences ofdrink. I speak particularl


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