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knowing how, be a drunkard; and it will vanish insensibly.

If you would have no other resource when past labour but a workhouse, be a drunkard; and you will be unable to provide any.

If you are determined to expel all domestic harmony from your house, be a drunkard; and discord, with all her train, will soon enter.

If you would be always under strong suspicion, be a drunkard; for, little as you think it, all agree that thoso who steal from themselves and families will rob others.

If you would be reduced to the necessity of shunning your creditors, be a drunkard; and you will soon have reason to prefer the bye paths to the public streets.

If you like the amusements of a court of conscience, be a drunkard; and you may be often gratified.

If you would be a dead weight to the community, and “cumber the ground” be a drunkard; for that will render you houseless, helpless, burdensome, and expensive.

If you would be a nuisance, be a drunkard; for the reproach of a drunkard is like that of a dung-hill.

If would be odious to your family and friends, be a drunkard; and you will soon be more than disagreeable.

If you would be a pest to society, be a drunkard and you will be avoided as infectious.

If you dread reformation of your faults, be a drunkard; and you will bo impervious to all admonition.

If you would smash windows, break the peace, get your bones broken, tumble under carts and