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Anecdote With A Moral

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
August
Year
1848
Copyright
Public Domain
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OS1 THÉ y. i in ííxcell ■ in di i uncas. Onw ol Zachary ; but he .was a great drunkard. Bul a sensc oi'thc dignity of oflíce carne over liini and he resolved he wou ld drink no more. - Just beforc the annual eiection, he was accusiomod to go evcry y'ear to Lebanon, and diñe with his biother the Goverjjor, the first Governor Trumble. One of the öovernor's boys beard oíd Zachaiy's story, and thóuglil he would ti y him, and see if be would stick to liis coW iv ier. kSo at table be said to the oíd f hief; " Zachiry, t bis beer is excellent ui! I vou inste it r" The oíd man dropped his knifejpíined forward w'nh stern intensity of expression his black eyé spdrklíng wiih indighatibn, was fixed lipón hiin ; "John," said he "yon do not know wliat yon are doing. Yon are servihg the devil, boy ! 1 tell yon thflt I am an ludían ! I tul! yon that I am and that if I should bnt taste yoir beer, Icould not stop lili 1 got to ruin, and become again llie drunken contemptible wretch your faiher remembera me lo liave been. Jolin, vvhile yon live never