JIM BRADDOCK'S PLEDGE.
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@The use is, to enable you to see your
folly so clearly as to cause you to abandon
it, am sure you not only see it now, bat
feel it strongly"


aWell, suppose do what then J"
"Why, sign the pledge, and become So
Der man."


'I've made up my mind never to sign a
pledge" was the emphatic answer.


@Why 20


aBecause, | am determined to live and
die free man. Pll never sign away my
liberty. My father was free man before
me, and | will live and die free man F"


"But you're a slave now"
at is not true. am free. Free to drink,
or free to let it alone, as choose"


aYou are mistaken, Jim. You have sold
yourself into slavery, and the marks Of the
chains that still bind you, are upon your
BODY You are the slave of a vile passion
that is too strong for your reason"
| al deny it, ! can quit drinking if ]
choose"


"Then why don't you quit ,"


uBecause love to drink"


aAnd love to see your wife's cheek grow
ing paler and paler every day-and your
children ragged and neglected."
4 Il


aMalcom !


81 only asked the question jim"


"But you know that don't love to see
them in the condition they are"


"And still, you say that you can quit
drinking whenever you choose, but will not
do so, because you love the taste, or the
effect Of the liquor, don't know which =


Braddock's feelings were good deal
touched, as they had been ever since NAL
CONS temperance speech in the grog-shop
He stood silent for some time, and then
said
/ ~ know it's too bad for me to drink al
II do, but l will break off"