A Scotsman tells this story of a beadle who was afflicted with a severe thirst, and was warned that he was killing himself. “You really have not the sense of the lower animals, William,” the doctor said. “Look at a horse when he is taken down to the river ’.o slake his thirst; when he has had enough he stops.” “Aye,” reported William, “but gin there was a horse at the ither side o’ the water saying, ‘Here’s tae ye,’ he wad gang on.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 249, 18 March 1916, Page 11
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84Untitled White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 249, 18 March 1916, Page 11
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