GOOD LITTLE ROBIN. 13 the husband nor the wife adopted any private courses, for the gratification of their appetite for liquor. The farmer used gin, and rum was the favorite beverage of his wife. Their respective jugs were regulariycarried by little Dick, and brougl^'home filledT^rom the grogshop. Dicky always calculated on .{he sugar, at the bottom of his. fat mr’&^ass ; and his mother neyen failed to reward^ him with a taste of her owm-if he went ^Jffiaine quick with tlqe jug. RipMrdy mio kyew nothing of * the evil consequent-os of-drinking spirit, saving from this experience with ihe stomach- pump, had offered, more than once, a portion of that, which he had resellr%l from his parents, to Robert Little, who always refused it, and told Richard; that it was wrong to drink it. But Richard replied, that his father and mother drank it every day, and 'therefore it could 1 not be wrong. “ Besides,” said he, “ father and * — mother are always so good-natured and funny when they drink it; and, after a while, they get cross and scold, and when they drink it again, they fall asleep, and it’s all over.” Robert, as
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