JIM BRADDOCK'S PLEDGE
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"' Well if you won't, you won't, be
said. sBut you always were an unsocial
kind of fellow .t
oAnd so we parted. Six months had
not passed before it was rumored through
the neishborhood, that Bradley had begun
to neglect his business; and that he spent
too much of his time at Harry Arnold'ss
met his wife one day, about this time, and,
really, her distressed look gave me the
heart ache. Something is wrong, certainly,
said to myself II was only aweek after,
that ! met poor Brady intoxicated,


"sAh, Malcom-gcod day-how are
YOU ; he said, reeling up to me and offer
ing his hand. you hav'nt tried that good
old rye Of mine yet. Come along now, it's
most gone


atY on must excuse me to-day, Mr.. Brad
w. | replied, trying to pass on


s.But he said should not get of this
|t;me-thst home with him must go, and
take dram from his whiskey barrel. OF
course did not go If there had been no
other reason, had no desire, ! can assure
Won. 10 meet his wife while her husband
was in so sad condition. After awhile
| so.rid Of him, and right glad was Ito do
so.n


aCome, that'll do for one day broke
in Harry Arnold, the grog shop keeper, no'
reliahing too well the alluDlons to himself
nor, indeed, the drift ofthe narrative, which
he very we'll understood H


aNo---no--go on go on " urged two
or three OF the group. Bnt Jim Braddocl
| said nothing, though he looked very thougt
full. .sGa iH .af mh
"Pll soon get through," replied Cth'
Washingtonian, showingno inclination &
abandon his text. You'sse, did not. o
contss, 90 home With poor Brady and b
lIeft me with drunken, half apsry mslsdic
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