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by my front gate, against the public highway ; 

 and, if he had followed the example of NOAH, 

 he would not have endeavoured to excuse him 

 self in the modest manner that he did, but 

 would have affixed an everlasting curse on me 

 and my children to all generations. 



366. The soldiers, in the regiment that I be 

 longed to, many of whom served in the Ame 

 rican war, had a saying, that the Quakers used 

 the word tired in place of the word drunk. 

 Whether any of them do ever get tired them 

 selves, I know riot; but, at any rate they most 

 resolutely set their faces against the common 

 use of spirits. They forbid their members to 

 retail them ; and, in case of disobedience, they 

 disown them. 



367. However, there is no remedy but the 

 introduction of beer, and, I am very happy to 

 know, that beer is, every day, becoming more 

 and more fashionable. At Bristol in Pennsyl 

 vania, I was pleased to see excellent beer in 

 clean and nice pewter pots. Beer does not kill. 

 It does not eat out the vitals and take the co 

 lour from the cheek. It will make men " tired" 

 indeed, by midnight; but it does not make 

 them half dead in the morning. We call wine 

 the juice of the grape, and such it is with a 

 proportion of ardent spirits, equal, in Portugal 



