Article #103 - Temperance

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            How the punch lovers have chuckled since the late election in ChesterCo over their victory.ha-ha-ha say they the ChesterCo people allow us to kill some more men & women yet. They would not allow us to kill a sheep no they make a law against that -- Ha --they need not

make any law against robbing sheep folds while they will me to kill that farmer over there & take his farm -- that is better business than killing sheep it is too low & mean for me to have anything to do with but as long as they allow me to kill men & steal their porpety & call it respectable

I will let sheep alone. I wonder they dont find out that a human is of more value than a brute

The people down East have discovered this & I was afraid the people in Chester Co would get to find it out too but they did not ha ha ain’t that lucky for me. I guess so for I would have had to shut up shop if they had & now I can keep going on filling my pockets out of the pockets of other people. Strange people have not more good sense than to let their money slip so easy