94 ‘DIGGING A GRAVE

so I was not always with her; but when
she got into one of her drinking fits, the
good gentleman himself would come for, me,
_ for he said I managed her better than any
one else. oe

“It’s bad enough for a woman to baie to
put up with a drunken husband, but it’s s hell
upon earth to have to bear with a drunken
wife. Woman should beware of the drops

end the half olasses and the tastings that.

_ leads them on from little to more, and from

more to much; for once they become drunk-

- ards, it?s easier to cure ten men than one

“woman. Why, dear, that good patient gentle-
man at one time had to put her away,
under restraint they called it; think of the
shame and. breaking of his heart ‘and home ;
and the first-born, the little shrivelled baby
I tould you of, never took a proper erip of
life —looked when it was born like a thing

half scalded, as it really | was, from the spirits