OR, CLARENCE MORTIMER. | A5

 

oa Oh, is not such a foe as this to be care-
fully avoided? Can it be possible that in
ven of such facts as these, boys will tamper
with the wine-cup, and even take pains to
_ form a taste which it is so hard to resist,
and which may be so fatal in its results.
Yes, do you not know that many boys
think it is manly to circulate the poison
among their young companions on every
possible occasion. Oh, boys, avoid it with
the deepest abhorrence, for there is death in
the draught for this world, and the next..
The Bible expressly says, ‘No drunkard
shall inherit the kingdom of God. 7 arate
must go back to the poor family I was
telling you about.

__ The wife tremblingly obeyed the order
which had been given to her by her tyrant.
She gathered up the fragments of broken