WITH A WINE-GLASS. ae
he does; if the sweetheart won’t reform he
fore marriage, he’ll never reform after it, if
your heart is ever so much set on him. Wait
and watch; he had sober parents, and that’s
in his favor; for the love of drink runs in
the blood like any other disease, and parents
should know that and act according. And
that reconciles me to that poor Nellie’s death
—for surely it must have run in her blood,
poor child—and T thought, when the shock
of her death was over, what a blessing it
was that she was taken before she became
what her mother was. God help us! the
devil puts many a poisoned cup in our way,
but the worst of all is the whisky. O! then,
sure, Pll pray that the Lord will save all we
know from a drunkard’s burning life and un-
happy death.” oe

Mary could only answer with her tears ;
she knew the truth of what Peggy said.

Daily, nightly, she saw the crimes that arose