CURIOSITIES OF LIQUORATURE.
Well its all very fine what all these total abstainers say, but I’ve been in a good deal of society, and spent much time amongst many people, and I never found them better than any other people, and a good many of them a deal worse, with their pride, conceit, fine flashing sashes, and such like nonsense, what does it all mean ? It’s true I do take my glass of gin, rum, whisky, brandy or beer, but I never take too much ; not like these teetotallers who found themselves sailing ail together to the north, and must therefore bout ship and sail all to the south. Who will tell me, with any truth, that a party of rational folk, who know how far to go, are not better company, and more agreeable and conversational, than your water swillers ? I have always found them so. There are no greater boasters than your water-drinkers; no prouder set of people than your teetotallers, total abstainer?, or G ood Templars; and no greater twaddle than the talk of the immense number of them when you find that they include men, women, and .children, and even babbies. A Good Tumbleb.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 199, 26 August 1874, Page 2
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198CURIOSITIES OF LIQUORATURE. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 199, 26 August 1874, Page 2
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