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AN OLD BoTTLE-A short time ago a
member ofa temperance society, in one of the
Suffolk societies, was accosted by an old
tippler who has earned an unenviable motor
iety by his constant and frequent visits to
the spirit bottle and beer barrel, and the fol-
lowing colloquy ensued:
IS I" say you teetotaller,"


Well, what is it9


"You are all wrong, can prove t'


"How?'


ooh out of the bible, Tve beeen reading
it.' aA t'h


"That is worthy remarking certainly but
what do you find there condemnatory of
teetotalism ~


@Why this here-it say you marnt put
no strong drink of no sort into, old bot
tles.' y


"Does il say SO ~


I" Yes and you can't make anything of
it--can you 20


" Certainly CAM


"No you can't defy you"


+" But ! can, you say men ought not
to put strong drink into old bottles2"


Yes, that's it; ha /! hap


"Then you must keep all strong drink
out Of yourself, for you are regular, old
bottle"


Hem can't stop, wasting my time with
you--QOOd morning