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from the gills, with which it had probably become en- 

 tangled, it gradually by its pressure formed the cavity in 

 the salmon's throat, from whence William Massey ex- 

 tracted it." 



" You are dry to-day, Priest," replied the Baron. 



" If I am," said the Priest, " it's what you appear always 

 to be, if we are to judge from the frequency of your drink- 

 ing. I have just met an account of a temperance family, 

 in an American newspaper, of which you would have made 

 an excellent member : listen to it." 



" Joe Harris was a whole-souled merry fellow, and very 

 Jbnd of his glass. After living in New Orleans for many 

 years, he came to the conclusion of visiting an old uncle 

 away up in Massachusets, whom he had not seen for a long 

 time. Now there is a difference between New Orleans 

 and Massachusets, in regard to the use of ardent spirits, 

 and when Joe arrived there and found all the people run 

 mad about temperance, he felt bad, thinking, with the 

 old song, that ( keeping the spirits up by pouring the 

 spirits down ' was one of the best ways to make time pass, 

 and began to fear, indeed, that he was in a pickle. But 

 on the morning after his arrival, the old man and his sons 

 being out at work, his aunt came to him and said, ' Joe, 

 you have been living in the south, and no doubt are in the 

 habit of taking a little to drink about eleven o'clock. Now 

 I keep some here for medicinal purposes ; but let no one 

 know it, as my husband wants to set the boys a good 



