. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . rou set me a good exam-ple. You tell me, Why, I stand here per-fectly safe ; and you in-duce me to try and followyour example, and I then? Are notyour hands stained withmy blood ? Can you getaway from that? Itmust needs be that offences come, but woe to that man bywhom the offence cometh. If you stand there safelyyourself, and induce me to stand there, and I fall, whatthen? Why, you say I am weak-headed. Well, then, byGods help I will keep off the plank ; thats all. I tell you,. ;OH, SANDY, IM IIAVIN ANAWFU TUMBLE. 594 FIGHTIN
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . rou set me a good exam-ple. You tell me, Why, I stand here per-fectly safe ; and you in-duce me to try and followyour example, and I then? Are notyour hands stained withmy blood ? Can you getaway from that? Itmust needs be that offences come, but woe to that man bywhom the offence cometh. If you stand there safelyyourself, and induce me to stand there, and I fall, whatthen? Why, you say I am weak-headed. Well, then, byGods help I will keep off the plank ; thats all. I tell you,. ;OH, SANDY, IM IIAVIN ANAWFU TUMBLE. 594 FIGHTING A TLUG OF TOBACCO. sir, and I tell you, madam, that everyone, from the begin-ning, who has become a drunkard, has become so by trying tobe a moderate drinker. But you say, -they are weak-minded. It tells of moremind, more strength of will, more firmness of purpose, moredecision of character, to break a bad habit than it does toacquire one. I knew a man who under-took to give up the use of tobacco. Heput his hand in his pocket, took out hisplug of tobacco, and threw it away, say-ing as he did so, Thats the end of it was the beginning of it. Oh,how he did want it! He would lickhis lips, he would chew chamomile flow-ers, he would chew gentian, he wouldchew toothpicks, quills, anything tokeep his jaws going; no use, he sufferedintensely, nothing satisfying him. Afterenduring the craving for thirty-six orforty-eight hours, he made up his mind,4W Xow it is of no use suffering for a bit oftobacco, I will go and get some. So hepurchased
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