A NIPPING STORY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2373, 14 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

A NIPPING STORY.

Listen 1 In calling at our sweep's to ask him'to-come and put our chimney in order for the winter fires, I was concerned to find that his little cottage was changed for the worso. The old Dutch clock which used to hang in the corner was gone, and the marks on the wall paper where it had been, remainod S3 witnesses of the change. Tho old-fashioned lookingglass, with its heavy rosewood frame, whioh formerly stood on the mantel-shelf, was also gono. The cosj horse-hair Bofa, which in the old timeß filled up one side of tho kiclien-parlour, it too, was gone! What did it all mean 1 " Ah, sir, things have gone hard with us since you were here a year ago. My man has taken to nipping. It's a Nip here, and a Nip there, morning, noon, and night, and

he's too far gone for me to do anythint? with him. : thon «H, ho has taken to selling off the things. Mother's clook has'gono'!'"-My 'bonny glass has gone! The sofa lias gone, nnij many, rthor.'.oajd things besides—all because Tod-has talari to Kipping!" Then I learnt that this 'eVil>bit of Nipping had been with poftr Hi of m J pi(l,"very rapid growth. " Little and often" was now tho daily rule of his. drinking. Never "dead'drunk" an,d practically never, '• thoroughly sober,-; Ned Nips away at' the'iioat spirits day by day, and it will beatough fight to win him baok again to sobriety. Home Words.. ■■•■../..