41 GOOD LITTLE ROBIN’. 17 Squeak, who kept the dram-shop at the corner of the road that leads to the grave yard, knew something more of poor Wild’s affairs, and observed, that it would be hard to do so, on account of his family; he knew from his own experienMg tnat a little liquor was, now and then aJielp to any man. It'was soon known owr the village, that farmer Wild had conveyedghe last remnant of Ins little ^property, a small piece of meadow land, to Deacon Suficak, io be paid fpr in groceries, at his store. Poor Wild, with the assistance of his wife and little. Dick, soon drank out the meadow land, The Deacon himself was then perfectly’satisfied, that it was a gone case. Richard Wild and Tempefance Wrild, his wife, were fonhwiih posted as common drunkards; and all persons “of sober lives and conversations f who sold rum in the village ofUippletown, were forbidden to furnish them tab ardent spirits any longer. The means Subsistence were now entirely gone, and thir removal to the workhouse was a matter bourse. It was haying time, and little B 2
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