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DANGER IN 'ruE DARK. 103<br />

"Why, 't is his <strong>in</strong>alienable right to get drunk<br />

aga<strong>in</strong>."<br />

" What if he have a wife and children W"<br />

"None of your preach<strong>in</strong>g here-my doctr<strong>in</strong>e is,<br />

let every poor devil take care of himself."<br />

"Suppose I had acted out that k<strong>in</strong>d of doctr<strong>in</strong>e,"<br />

said one at his elbow, "<strong>the</strong> night you fell <strong>in</strong>to <strong>the</strong><br />

canal, too drunk to help yourself out W"<br />

"0 that alters <strong>the</strong> case, you know."<br />

"How does it alter <strong>the</strong> case W"<br />

" Anyone that has a spark of benevolence would<br />

protect an <strong>in</strong>toxicated man, when <strong>in</strong>capable of help<strong>in</strong>g<br />

himself."<br />

"Yet leave his wife and children to starve-when<br />

that which should have bought <strong>the</strong>m bread was expended<br />

for rum to make him drunk."<br />

"Let us have no more controversy, but a little<br />

spr<strong>in</strong>kle more of old tangle-heels. Give us a m<strong>in</strong>tjulep;<br />

<strong>the</strong>n on top 0' that, a brandy sl<strong>in</strong>g, and you'll<br />

soon see this young man's conscience become elastic<br />

as India-rubber, and quiet as a duck-pond! Fill well<br />

<strong>the</strong> glasses, and I'll warrant you <strong>the</strong>se moraliz<strong>in</strong>g<br />

notions will readily subside. Conscience is a troublesome<br />

th<strong>in</strong>g, but it never disturbs a liquor-seller; say,<br />

an't I right, Mr. Blubber W"<br />

" I've been well of that sort 0' weakness manya-day,"<br />

replied <strong>the</strong> corpulent gentleman, with a<br />

wheez.<br />

An old bloat, with a beet-red nose, who had just<br />

entered, observed, as he was about to pour a bumper

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