Anecdote With A Moral
OS1 THà y. i in ÃÃxcell â in di i uncas. Onw ol Zachary ; but he .was a great drunkard. Bul a sensc oi'thc dignity of oflÃce 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 oÃd 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 oÃd f hief; " Zachiry, t bis beer is excellent ui! I vou inste it r" The oÃd man dropped his knifejpÃined forward w'nh stern intensity of expression his black eyé spdrklÃng 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 ludÃan ! 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
Article
Subjects
Mohican Indians
Anecdote
Moral Story
Old News
Michigan Liberty Press
Zachary
John
Trumble