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and whatever enfeebles must chill. It is very 

 well known, in the Northern countries, that, if 

 the cold be such as to produce danger of frost 

 biting, you must take care not to drink strong 

 liquors. 



361. To see this beastly vice in young men is 

 shocking. At one of the taverns at Harris- 

 burgh there were several as fine young men as 

 I ever saw. Well-dressed, well educated, po 

 lite, and every thing but sober. What a Squalid, 

 drooping, sickly set they looked in the morning! 



362. Even little boys at, or under, twelve 

 years of age, go into stores, and tip off their 

 drams ! I never struck a child, in anger, in my 

 life, that I recollect; but, if I w r ere so unfortu 

 nate as to have a son to do this, he having had 

 an example to the contrary in me, I would, if all 

 other means of reclaiming him failed, whip him 

 like a dog, or, which would be better, make 

 him an out-cast from my family. 



363. However,. I must not be understood as 

 meaning, that this tippling is universal amongst 

 gentlemen ; and, God be thanked, the ivomen 

 of any figure in life do by no means give into 

 the practice ; but, abhor it as much as well- 

 bred women in Erigland, who, in general, no 

 more think of drinking strong liquors, than they 

 do of drinking poison. 



