WITH THE EXCEPTION.
“ Why,” thundered an impassioned Yankee orator at a temperance massmeeting, “in one year, in 12 short months, the people of the United States drank twenty-seven million eight hundred and sixty-seven thousand nine hundred and fifteen gallons of beer, and seven million eight hundred and fiftythousond two hundred and ninety-one gallons of whisky ! How much of that hideous aggregate did you drink ?” he shrieked, glaring around at the respectable vice - presidents on the platform ; and in the impressive pause that followed, the corresponding secretary arose and said that, with the exception of the tonic drops she was compelled to take before breakfast, and the anti-malarial bitters that Doctor Bolus prescribed for her, and a little pale ale for her digestion, and a pint of beer at night—“which Icould’nt close an eye in sleep without it” —and maybe an occasional drop of brandy for the neuralgi, she had not tasted “ a drop of spiritual or ferventuous liquids” since she had joined the society.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2667, 7 October 1881, Page 3
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164WITH THE EXCEPTION. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2667, 7 October 1881, Page 3
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