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OF my mother.p Your mother,o said the
old woman &C o how she must have suffered
Tor you" This struck thrilling cord in
his soul. lie rushed from the house towards
small pond around which he was seen to
linger; and apparently embracing his oppor-
tunity when no one observed him, he plune-
ed i'll the water, and less than ain hour he was
taken up as you have seen to day. "He
has left" added the informant, g a bundle in
which were these two letters.n One was
directed to his mother, the other to me In
mine, he detailed in simple yet affecting Ian
guage, his suffering since we parted, the
gradual manner in which he had been led
captive by lntemperance, and the iron grasp
with which it had held him. 90 added he
if you have a son let him beware of the first
drop. Let him 6 touch not, taste not, han
die not" be inscribed upon every thing that
intoxicates; and if motive is ever wanting
to enforce his abstinence, remind him of your
poor friend Henry L--.n


1t is unnecessary, to add, that the nigh
was to me sleepless one. Before commen-
cling my journey in the morning, visited
his grave, and engaged my landlord to erect
and humble stone upon it, that his friends in
journeying that way might find where he
was laid. transmitted to his afflicted moth.
er from the nearest town, the letter he had
left for her together with my own knowl-
edge of his death, and the deep sympathy
felt in her affiiction; althought at the mo-
ment | wrote felt how utterly and worth
less was all sympathy in such agony as hers
must he how impotent the words of COM
fort would fall on mothers ear, mourning
over an only son, who had fallen into a
drunkard's grave, and must merit the drum
kard's portion. O IS there not some young
man entering life with as fair prospects as
his who can take warning from his melan-
choly end, and be kept in the straight and
narrow path of temperance.