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A SERPENT IN THE PATH.
While* the Temperance Alliance secretary
was on his lecturing tour at Petersburg
last Wednesday a precession of temperance
supporters paraded the streets. The hand
had passed in safety, ithen came local minis
ters, one of whom, tne Rev. E. S. Tuckwell,
B.A., who might have been expected to
look upward and onward, noticed a snake
making its way across the road and among
the feet of the processionists. With cha
racteristic courage the worthy bachelor of
arts stamped the life out of the reptile.
The alliance secretary and the reverend
gentlemen .present at once settled tha't this
was a good omen, and that it meant thus
should alcohol yet be stamped to death by
the advancing hosts of temperance reform
ers. At the meeting that followed Mr. Ad
eock related the incident, but when Mr.
Tuekwell's turn came he accused the last
speaker of having stolen his titbit. He re
marked, however, that the moral1 had not
been pointed, whereupon the lecturer in
terjected, "Well, you can adorn its tail."
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