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fall victims to feminine charms and 

 snares. 



Over-drinking, undoubtedly, does for a 

 goodly number, but, without wishing to 

 make a saint of myself, there is not 

 very much to confess here. I may have 

 had to scramble to bed odd times by 

 aid of the balustrade and the boots; I 

 may have risen in the morning with a 

 "head," and breakfasted off half a piece 

 of dry toast ; but on the whole much 

 harm hasn't followed, and certainly I 

 have no occasion to put this down as one 

 of my besetting sins. 



Gambling has done the trick for me, 

 though, and if I, in the certain know- 

 ledge that anything I may record will 

 not waver one solitary backer from the 

 error of his ways, still endeavour to 

 point out the most common-sense way 

 in which it should be done, I will not 



