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her to dram drinking as to a fate—a destiny
that could not be avoided. How could she
think badly of the « poor craythers’’? who took
a drop to “rise their heads”’ when the world
was down on them?” Happily she ‘ could
not abide” the taste or smell of spirits ; but
surely, Peggy, she often thought, was “ mighty
hard in her judgments.’ She could not
understand how any one would “take to
the drop”’ except they were poor or in trouble,
and then it “ got over them.’’ She was a
good, kind-hearted and affectionate girl, but
Pegey’s temperance lectures often wearied
her; and they were frequently scoffed at
and laughed at by her companions, but Mary
felt she should never be able to bear that

again.