VESTS CELEBRATED PAINTING

SOME LITTLE THINGS.
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He only drinks a little. ! know it. And so
did that bloated man when he first began. But
he is industrious and steady. And SO was that
ragged vagabond, before the first glass passed
his lips. But his connections are respectable,
and he has character to maintain. See you
that victim on the gallows? Who held more
amiable position in society than he, before he
burned his brains with liquor? But he has
around him lovely family-his wife all affec-
ton, his children most tenderly beloved. Can
it be that, though he drinks little now, his
devotion for these will not restrain him from
too free indulgence Can il be that human
being, the most noble work of God, possessed
of sound reason, Of wide influence, Of an ami
able name, Of warm affection, can ever so de-
base himself as voluntarily to leave them all,
and wallow in the filth of intemperance! Oh
/ could not-could not, think thus of my fel-
low-man, were not experience SO wide and
strong. But when read the court docket
when pass through the State prison-when
I visit the maniac's cell, and learn from the
confessions OF SO many whose hearts were.
once buoyant with bliss, that it was the little
glass that brought them there, what can say?
l must bow my head in shame, and confess
that man is even so.


Then why drink lit,le2 Why drink at
all2 Why run heedlessly and uselessly into
danger, when il you die, you die depised and
if you escape, you gain no glory? But, if
bent upon having little drink, think not to
escape. As well might you light bomb, and
think to hold it in your grasp; as, if you go on
drinking your little and little still, that any
strength of reason, or the sweetest persuasions
of affection can avert your ruin.