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and not that be should rejsct IL.
Rip is . drunkard, and kis life 10 N
awful warning. Evea when he knows
the sorrows that his vice has produced,
he il unable to rid himself Of il. The
great joy of refinding his home and his
daughter il not his saviour. Like every
other confirmed inebriste, he naturally
falls back into his old habits. The love
of liquor 10 too strong for him. 1t 10 be-
yond his control. He hesitates moment
when the cup is handed to him-handed
to him by his own wife-and then he
does what one might say he cannot help
doing; he receives it, and drinks as be
used to drink. The thraldom Of the
drunkard, that is what the play teaches,
if it teaches anything in this respect.
Rip is one of the most lovable of men,
chiefly because be himself loves every
body, and is generous and sweet-tem-
pered and brave. Even his breeches.
wearing wife 10 dear to him, in spite Of
all her beatings, and seedlings, and hair
pullings. When her cruelty comes be.
fore him most wildly he has only NOR
nv laugh. When he says, IF ever
Gretchen tumbles into the water, she's
got to shwim, do you mind that2" there
is not faint of bitterness in the words.
His dog-how he loves the poor beast
he would rather that Gretchen should
click me than the dog" After Derrick
has given him the bag of gold, he hands
it to the landlord whom he owes: II will
wipe off my score, and stand treat for the
whole village"
In the bleak forest on that cold, awful
night when Gretchen has turned him out
of-doors, he salutes the sheltering trees !:
show are you, old fellows9" and then
with tenderest pathos adds: ~ like de
trees; dey keep me from de wind and DC
rain, and"-poor soul!-"dey never blows
me up" Hendrick Hudson and the de-
mons of the Kaatskills provoke not his
hate but bis humor, even after he finds
himself captive, and unable to get out
of their clutches. "Look here, old gentle:
man." he bravely shouts to Hendrick, III
you mean to do me any harm, just shpeak
right out" He is not afraid. Drinking
the LIQUOR that Hendrick offers him-the
LIQUOR that makes bis head at one mo-
ment as light as a feather, and at the
next $50 heavy as lead" be wishes good
health to the devils themselves; and fall
ing down under the effects of the draught,
his last conscious thought as his captur.
ers move off from him is: "Dontgo away
from me, boys. Going to leave me all
alonei Don't go away. will drink your
good health and your" Before he has
finished the toast, the potion has done its
work. Now it Is just this generous,
brave, good-natured, sympathetic, Iowa,
BILE man who is common drunkard, and
who will die drunkard. Reform in his
case is impossible. All the trouble, the
anguish, that his appetite for drink has
brought upon him and his family, has
been no warning whatever. In his old
ace, with child, wife, home, lands re-
.to,ad IN him he In atill the elave OF his