HOW HE CAMR TO "SWEAR OFF."

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 33, 30 August 1884, Page 3

HOW H E CAM R TO "SWEAR OFF."

(_->VEBTISEMBNT.) •' No, I won't drink with you today, boys," said a drummer to several companions, as tbey settled down in the- smoking car and passed the bottle *' The fact is, boys, I have (quit drinking- I've sworn __£_" He was greeted with ahouta of laughter by the jolly crowd around him ; they put the bottle under bis nose and indulged in many jokes at his expense, but he refused te drink, and was rather serious about it. " What's the matter with you, old l>dy ?" sang ; out one. "If you've quit drinking, something's up; tell uk— what it is." « Well, hoys, '^ r I _now you'll laujrh at ";me But tell you, all the' same ' I havfe beßn '■ A drinkingrman ifllJmylife^eyerV strice 1 was married. A? you tall know, I love whisky — it*s_ag sweet in my mouth as sugar— aMd God only knows how I'll quitit^iFor seven years nofi a day ha< passeii-oVeiK my bead -tbat ! I don't Heve tix l4in dn^'dririk. 1 ''But I am done_ . Yeafjerd.ay „1 wa^itt Chicago! 't)own' on South liark);. street a- customer juine k«*eps. a pawn shop ia connection with his, other business.' 'V £ bailed on hiiny and while 1 was there a young, man of pdtmore ' th& i,^OTty^fivev !i^arfng threadbare cjothes, and . lp^km'g. *j*B hard as if he had n'i; seen .'a 'sober. /day for a monA^ .«Qme/ ; In ; -Wiith, : ,ai Jittle package in his ■_and^ (i ;i i i'embHnjf , be unwrapped it, and handed the article to the pawnbrpk^rs^-^iD'g^^Ciye'me 4 te_ cents * 'A'hd^jo^Ti; do you suppose it was ?j tA ; |>air * of' baby shoes,, -little, things ; with /Only.. ,the buttons a trifle.s<d.l.ed, I 'aa Jf ijhey .,had been worn only ouce or twice. «« : Where did j&- gdt these?! asked the pawnbroker. Got 'em home,' replied the maiiwht) had ; ah intelligent face, and th^ .mann^; ofya , gentleman, despite his sad condition.