IN STEVE MILLER’S BAR-ROOM. 69

 

for the use of his bar-room. Five minutes
afterward he occupied it alone.

Stephen Miller’s affairs were never after-
ward as prosperous as they had been;
but fewer estates run down in the village,
and fewer families are reduced to beggary.

And so it would be in hundreds of towns
and villages, if the inhabitants would act
as Le Roy and his friends did in this case.