Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-11
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Rcast Goose and Annie Saifce.
A TRUE

Did you ever hear, sir, how IL was
that Edwards the MASON gave up drink
ing ?" said a working man to my father
one day when he was talking to him about
the evils of intemperance.
NO." said my father chow was it =
"Well, sir, one day Edwards was drink
ing in a p%tblic-house with the landlord,
when the landlords wife came to call her
husband to his dinner"
What's for dinner ?" said the man.
Roast goose" replied his wife.
els there apple sauce ?" be asked.
NO." she answered.
well 90 and make some ! 'front.' cat
goose without apple sauce"
What apple sauce is" said the mar
rator of this anecdote. " don't know, but
L suppose it's something good they eats
with goose"
When the woman had left the room to
prepare this wonderful delicacy, Edwards
was SO impressed by the scene he had
witnessed that for the first time in his life
he began to think, and his eyes were opened
so that he was enabled to see clearly what
a fool he had been.
IlCIC > NuiS hldus SdAO hC " hilllsCiAT
. can't eat his dinner off roast goose 1citR-
ont apple sauce, while my poor wife and
children at home are glad to get a herring
for their dinners, and very often CAM have
even that. Whose money, | should like
to know, goes to provide this fellow with
good things? Mine, and that of other
poor fools like me. Well, what's done
can't be uudone. Its no use crying over
split milk, but that feIlcU tsur
roast goose again at my expense" So he
paid his reckoning and walked out of that
public-house never to enter it again.
This happened many years ago, but the
same thing is now going on in thousands
of public-houses all over the country. The
landlord and his wife and children l~easting
on the best of everything, and tie poor
tipsy fools who pay for it having scarcely
enough TO keep themselves from starving.
Every poor wretch who sits drinking
away his earnings in the public-house
sees this going on before his eyes, but he
is too stupefed with drink to apply the
lesson to himself as that poor mason was
enabled to do.
Reader, are you one of the number ?
Thank God, if you are not but if you are,
the next time you visit the public-house
notice the nice, hot, savoury meal that i,
preparing for the landlord and his family
and then contrast it with the wretched
food that is being prepared in your power
ty.stricken home.
Suppose you were to be told that a fami'
ly were coming to live in one Of the most
comfortable houses in the village, aud that
every working man was expected to give
a large portion Of his earnings towards the
support of these people. Why the whole
village would be up in arms to resist such
tyranny. Fancy the commotion there
would be, Can you not hear the people
saying, " We have scarcely enough bread
for U little ones, and are we to be taxed
to keep a parcel of lazy, idle v~agabonds p
Yet you know perfectly well that all thi.
time you and your companions are sup
porting two or three such families in your
village, ay, and pinching yourselves, too
that they may have all the comforts and
Injuries you can give them.
God grant that your eyes may be opened
before it is too late to the folly and nisery
Of your present course, which IS leading
you on by sure and certain steps in the
path to destruction. The way of trans
g~ressors is hard, and harder you will fine
it the longer you continue in your P-ssen
evil course.-COttGgcT a. artisan.