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Drunkenness with cider would seem to be so far 

 different than in the case of beer, in that while the 

 latter makes its victim heavy and stupid, the former 

 incites to motion, and leads to quarrelling, lighting, 

 and foolhardiness. 



Hence, then, cider so exhilarates the farm labourer 

 that he will do any amount of work if he is con- 

 stantly plied with it, and all the while that it is 

 but stimulating him, he fancies he is getting 

 strength and vigour from it ; but, alas ! he is only 

 thus drawing upon his capital ; exhaustion follows a 

 hard day's work got over amid hard drinking, which 

 requires the following day to be spent on the same 

 high-pressure system, or else little will be done. 

 Hence one of our own labourers, during barley 

 mowing at so much per acre, was fain to confess 

 that he " wanted a pint of cider at four o'clock in 

 the morning worse nor any other time of day." 



It happens, then, that as harvest work is wanted 

 to be done expeditiously, it is let out by the piece, 

 by which the labourer gets more money and more 

 cider. But consider, my masters, that, when not 

 under these stimulants, you can only expect from 

 the workman a languid day's work when the excite- 

 ment is over ; and too often, indeed, the poor man 

 gets a long illness as the result of his forced, that is, 

 stimulated labour, and, if not, such a system of 

 drawing upon his capital — strength — is certain to end 

 in premature old age. 



Seeing, however, that the labourer has got to believe 

 that drink keeps up his strength, it too often follows 

 that he concludes that the more he gets of it the 

 better; and hence, as a rule, there is no satisfying 



