The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-03-28
HIS EXPERIENCE.

was born at Waltham Abbey, Essex, twelve
miles from London, England in the year 1915
| served my time to silk and calico printer |!
had not been long at the trade before became
fond OF strong drink, and like most men tina have
brains, soon became dGuGkard. If man has
any brains, if he drinks much strong drink he
Will soon become drunkard but a man that has
got no brains may drink as much as he likes and
| 1T will not make him drunk men Judge of strong
drink by its badness, if man sets down and
drinks three or four pots of ale and it does not
make him drunk, he says ii is not worth a cent
quart, but IT three plnts of ale makes him fall on
his back and he feels up for the ground, or goes
to the pump to light his pipe, then he says it is
good; he will tell you he only drank three pints
and 1t made him quite drunk man sat down
and drank four pins OF very strong ale when he
came out he said that ale is not good, | DO not
fee any difference to what | did when
went in, but going home he had to 90 over mar
row brdge-he fell in the ditch, when he got
out he rubbed the dirt off his face and said the
ale was better than he thought it was! Gentle
men, Is not this something like the truth /
will tell You some of the foolish things that |
have done when was a drunkard. and | would
not write what am going to write if any one
was to give me one hundred dollars but gentle
men have suffered much by the cursed strong
drink, and know have been the means of re,
claiming some men by writing my simple expo
Renee; but true, my friends when was in nv
SOBER moments was quite still, but as soon as /
got drunk, ! was like mailman one time got
drunk, went into barbcr's shop, got all my hair
taken off! Ii any one had spoken to me for nv
good should have said that | was as happy as
any man that lived but if you had come to my
my bed the next morning would have told you
was wretched aud miserable. Gentlemen, is
not this something like the truth When /
looked in the glass and saw had no hair on my
head was something like the bald headed Scotch
man and lrlshman that got drunk, and the Irish
man told the ScUlchmaH he was not half man
tor he had no hair his head the Ifishman
went to bed very drunk, when no had cot TO sleep
the Scotchman shaved all the hair off his head.
when the lrlshman got up the next morning and
saw he had not got any hair on his head he saws
" Bad luck to the Landlord. it is not me that ne
has called it is the baid keudcd Scotch,nan ~
Ie went and got in bed again, how long he laid
cannot say now gentlemen, if ever the Scotch.
man did shave the hair off the Irishman's head
he did not think he was the ScOtchnan, but when
he looked IN the glass and seen that the hair was
OIL his head he knew he was the Irishman, but
when the hair was taken off his head he did not
know, for he was so drunk When [ got up the
next morning and looked in the glass and saw
that bad no hair on my head, knew it was
myself, but did not know where | had my hair
taken of my head. but when some one told me
where had been / could remember being in the
barber's shop.
If any man reads this that has been drunk no
knows that then he has been drunk he has done
things that he never would have known. had not
sorne one told him abou, il the next day. or week
then he could rememberit. The time thar now
speak Of is about nine years ago {; al this time
could have earned from three to four hounds a
week, had been a mind TO work might have