Excerpt from Temperance TalesThu in the tint of a eertee of storiee, of which it possibly may be the beginning and the M. The inciden'. Which is the foundation of the following tale, was communicated to the wrtter, by. Valued friend, an a fact, With the name of the principal character. Another friend, to whom the manuscript was ven, percetvmg some advantage in its publication, has thought proper to give it to the world, as r umber One, from Wth l infer. That I am expected to write axumber two. The hint may be worth taking, at some leisure moment. In the mean time, pray read Number One: it can do you no harm: there is nothing sectarian about it. When you have read it, if, among all your connections and fnende, you can think of none, whom it: erueal ma possibly benefit - and it Will be strange if you cannot - do me the favor to present it to t e first htt e boy that you meet. He Will, no don t, take it home to his mother or his father. If you Will not do this, throw it m the etreet, as near to some dram-seller's door as you ever venture to go 3 let it take the course of the ¿yingeeeed, tlch God 18 pleased to intrust to the keeping of the Wlndl it may yet wring up and ar fruit, if such be the Will of Him, who giveth the increase.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.