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Rh the patrons—many of whom are more or less under the influence of liquor—are dangerous and noisy, and on frequent occasions the slumbers of all are disturbed by a row that may end in murder. The proprietor is indifferent to such possibilities, and if a lodger objects on the ground that he wants to sleep he will quite likely be met with the argument on the part of the owner:

"I sells you the place fer sleepin', but I don't sell the sleep with it."

How true is that striking passage from the twenty-third chapter of Proverbs in which the baneful effects of intemperance are vividly described: "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder."

Shakespeare makes even his clowns and fools expose the vice of intemperance and the degradation of drunkards.

What a sermon, too, on the blessings of temperance, is contained in "As You Like It," when Adam says to his young master:—