"Twere the Egg"

Manawatu Herald, 20 January 1898, Page 3

"Twere the Egg "

. . —^h I have no prejudice against teetotallers. We have a very flourishing (so-called) "temperance so6iety" in the village, and the result is seen in the increased comfort of the cottagers. I used sometimes to show my interest in the cause by taking the chair at a meeting now and then, but j have given it up since ladies have begun to appear on platfoims; for ladies recognise no rules of the game. In the middle of a passionate address they think it not indecent to appeal to mi chairman to set a good example by taking the pledge. At the last meeting I attended, a lady speaker, the wife of a e'ergyman, told how her husband used always before his evening service to eat an egg beaten up with brandy, which tnade. him bilious ; but since he had loft of this drunken habit, he had also left off hit bilious attacks. This was more than old B. r could stand, for he xoared out '"Twere the egg, mann, what made bitk bilioui. You tell yoar mister to take t'brandy wi'out 'un."— From "Pages from a Private Diary," in the CoKjcHUi lUflAzUji for December.