WITH A WINE-GLASS. 11

drink — he says he does not know which
is the worst curse.”

“But he had a turn for it first, Phil,”
said Peggy, “I remember that. She’s gone
fast down the hill, as women do—they go
down faster than men, and have not the
strength to get up again. Every day I hear
of another and another digging their graves
with a wine-glass,’ muttered Peggy. “O,
dear,” she continued, “will the curse of
drink ever pass from the people!—the more
people, the more drink; the more drink,

the more graves?”