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IX] "Indeed but I am!" he replied, as he pushed on the bottles. "Nearly twice as much money is spent in England on Drink, as on any other article of food. Read this card." (What faddist ever goes about without a pocketful of the appropriate literature?) "The stripes of different colours represent the amounts spent on various articles of food. Look at the highest three. Money spent on butter and on cheese, thirty-five millions: on bread, seventy millions: on intoxicating liquors, one hundred and thirty-six millions! If I had my way, I would close every public-house in the land! Look at that card, and read the motto. That's where all the money goes to!"

"Have you seen the Anti-Teetotal Card?'" Arthur innocently enquired.

"No, Sir, I have not!" the orator savagely replied. "What is it like?"

"Almost exactly like this one. The coloured stripes are the same. Only, instead of the words 'Money spent on,' it has 'Incomes derived from sale of': and, instead of 'That's where all the money goes to,' its motto is 'That's where all the money comes from!