THE DRUNKARD'S WILL.
This will was found on a chair in '» wretched room after inmate, a drunkard, had committed suicide: “I leave the world a wasted character and a ruinous example; I leave to my parents tt* great a sorrow as in their weakness they could fiosstbly bear; I leave to my brothers ami sisters as much shame and dishonour as I could have brought th n m- I leave to my wif* n broken heart and a life full of shime; I leave to each of my children poverty, ignorance, a bad character, and the memory of their father lying in a drunkards grave.
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White Ribbon, Volume 31, Issue 367, 18 January 1926, Page 5
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105THE DRUNKARD'S WILL. White Ribbon, Volume 31, Issue 367, 18 January 1926, Page 5
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