[6] From Juvenile Temperance Manual, by Julia Colman.

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STORIES ABOUT THE RIGHT WAY TO TREAT ALE, BEER, Etc.

THE RIGHT SIDE.—­“Boys, which is the right side of the public house?  Can you tell me?”—­“Yes, sir, the outside.”

THE GOAT AND THE ALE.—­Many years ago, when everybody drank freely, a Welsh minister named Rees Pritchard was at the ale-house drinking, when he took it into his head to offer some ale to a large tame goat.  The animal drank till he fell down drunk, and the minister drank on till he was carried home drunk.  The next day he was sick all day, but on the third day he went again to the ale-house, and began to drink.  The goat was there, and he offered him more ale, but the animal would not touch it.  The minister, seeing the animal wiser than himself, was ashamed, and gave up drinking, and became a worthy minister.

HOW THE MONKEY WAS CURED.—­A monkey named Kees had been taught to drink brandy.  At dinner every day he had his share like his more manly (?) neighbors, only that his was given to him in a plate.  One day, as he was about to drink it, his master set it on fire, and he ran off frightened and chattering.  No inducement could afterward make him drink brandy.  We have many stories of animals who would never drink again after they had once experienced its effects.

THE KEEN MARKSMAN does not poison his nerves and brain with alcohol.  Angus Cameron, a Highlander, at the age of twenty, took the Queen’s prize for the best marksmanship, and when he was twenty-two (in 1869), he won in the same way a cup worth $1000.  He made the best shot each time that ever had been made in the contest, and neither of them has been beaten by anyone else.  Angus is a slight, modest, unassuming young man, who had been a Band of Hope boy.  When he was announced as the winner, and all the friends made an ado over him, and offered him a generous glass of champagne, he quietly refused their mistaken kindness, and kept his pledge.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, when a printer boy in London, would drink no beer, and his companions called him the water American, and wondered that he was stronger than they who drank beer.  His companion at the press drank six pints of beer every day, and had it to pay for.  He was not only saved the expense, but he was stronger than they, and better off in every way.  If he had gone to drinking beer at that time, like the other printer boys, it is likely we should never have heard of him.

OATMEAL DRINK.—­“In Boulton and Watts’ factory we saw an immense workman at the hottest and heaviest work, wielding a ponderous hammer, and asked him what liquor he drank.  He replied by pointing to an immense vessel filled with water and oatmeal, to which the men went and drank as much as they liked.”  This is made by adding one pound fine oatmeal to each gallon of water, and is much used in factories and at heavy work of all kinds in Government works, instead of the old rations of alcoholic liquors.  Iron puddlers, glass blowers, and athletic trainers, all do their work now better without alcoholic liquors.