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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...Smith says, 'tis called a Sign. What is a sign?" "My little dear, 'Tis a bad sign for all, I fear; For many wives, and children, too, Have cause for sadness, When tempting signs like that they view, Their hard-earned money soon is spent, Money that should be saved for rent, In drunken, wasteful merriment. It pleases you, But men will rue The day, when they Were lured away From home and honest industry, To what is called, 'good company.' Ruin and grief, I know f ull well, That angel brings to Nuttingdell." "And lead us not into temptation, We are taught to pray, Thus, day by day, And children's clothes Too often goes No matter what our rank, or station. But we must watch, as well as pray, Not go into temptation's way, Of all the temptmg snares we know, What can surpass The social glass? Men, every day, It leads astray, To poverty, and shame, and woe. Thus, Nuttingdell soon felt the curse Of that false Angel near the Pound; The whisky glass, the pipe, the pot, The gossip, and the skittle-ground, Made first the idler, then the sot; For thus men go, from bad to worse, By whisky's strong, enchanting spell, That Angel enthralled Nuttingdell. Poor little Winny's father, too, That sober man, went there to see The rules of a society. A tempting bait, held out to view By the sharp publican, who knew That clubs were profitable things: There, under that bad Angel's wings, A club was formed; a vile pretence To catch the simple, and their pence. And Winny's father, in that shop, Began to take his little drop. The little led to more, and he Was brought down, thus, to poverty. What could be done? the women then, Began to ask each other, when It was resolved, that they would go Unto the court-house, there to show Their haggard faces Where the traces Of w...
