Excerpt from The Temperance Tales, Vol. 1 of 2

In presenting a comprehensive edition of the "Temperance Tales" to the public, the publisher complies with the request of many highly respected friends of the temperance cause. These tales were prepared for the purpose of doing good, and it has been sufficiently acknowledged, that they have accomplished their object, in no ordinary degree. Hundreds of thousands have already been scattered over the earth. Editions have been published in England and Scotland, and several of these tales have been translated into the German language. Editions have also been printed at Botany Bay, and at Madras, in South India. The perusal of some one of these narratives is well known to have turned the hearts of many persons of intemperate habits, from drunkenness and sloth, to temperance and industry. Many years have passed since their first publication, in separate numbers. It may not be uninteresting to the children of parents, once intemperate, to cast their eyes upon those pages, whose influence, under the blessing of Heaven, has preserved them from a miserable orphanage. The publisher confidently hopes that the circulation of the Temperance Tales will greatly tend, as it ever has done, to the advancement of the reformation.

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