STRONG DRINK AND TOBACCO SMOKE. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTOEY. 



" To eat, drink, and be merry," whilst life lasts, appear 

 to be instincts of man's nature, scarcely requiring the 

 sanction or the recommendation of a proverb ; but from 

 the hurried toil of life in which too many of us eat our 

 daily bread, it may be good and refreshing to rest awhile, 

 and turn to the green hill-side, to " look at the lilies of 

 the field how they grow." 



There we shall see all living objects, whether it be the 

 insect on the wing in drowsy flight, or the bird up 

 yonder carolling his song as if in praise and thanks- 

 giving for the permission of life in this beautiful world ; 

 w^hether it be the huml^le plants of the varied thousands 

 that adorn our English heda-erow : — 



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" A violet by a mossy stone 

 Half hidden from the eye ; " 



or the countless roses of delicate hue that adorn its 

 summit — or, in the ditch beneath it, the brilliant flowers 



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