. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . to which the lady replied, Well, I will if youwill. Said the gentleman, Agreed. Agreed, said thelady, we are teetotalers. We are teetotalers. Whenshall we begin? At once. Agreed. Go along! O DO They went home. Well, wife, we musl have somethingfor supper; what have you in tic house, any cold meat?I believe there is no cold meat. What shall we have?Suppose we have some toasted chees Very well, some toasted cheese. The bell was rungf, and the servant A MEAL OF TOASTED CHEESE. 321 came in, Bring us some toasted cheese, and m-m-m-water. Sup
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . to which the lady replied, Well, I will if youwill. Said the gentleman, Agreed. Agreed, said thelady, we are teetotalers. We are teetotalers. Whenshall we begin? At once. Agreed. Go along! O DO They went home. Well, wife, we musl have somethingfor supper; what have you in tic house, any cold meat?I believe there is no cold meat. What shall we have?Suppose we have some toasted chees Very well, some toasted cheese. The bell was rungf, and the servant A MEAL OF TOASTED CHEESE. 321 came in, Bring us some toasted cheese, and m-m-m-water. Supper came in, and they began on the the wife, Well? The old gentleman, making an effortto swallow the cheese, replied, Well? Well, said thelady, its rather dry; what shall we do? Suppose webegin to-morrow. The bell was rung and the servant wasordered to bring in the porter. But they never began onthe morrow. Their conscience was touched, they thought they could get on easily withoutthe drink, but found they couldnot. However, the old man now. WELL, ITS RATHER DRY. goes by the nickname of Old Well, and he never will getrid of it as long as he lives, for he was foolish enough to tellthe whole story. I think a man should ascertain whether hehas an appetite or not, before he boasts that he has none. As I said in the opening of this chapter, temperancereform was a serious matter in those early days when thebeginnings were small. The very men that adopted the con-stitution I alluded to were persecuted, hooted at, and peltedthrough the streets. The doors of their houses were black- goo THE TEMPLE OF TEMPERANCE. ened, their cattle mutilated, their fruit-trees girdled. Thefire of persecution scorched some men so that they left thework. Others worked on, and God blessed them. Some areliving to-day. They worked hard. They lifted the firstturf, prepared the bed in which to lay the laid it amid persecution and storm, they worked underthe surface. There were busy
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