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TEN NIGHTS IN A BARROOM
Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, AND WHAT I SAW THERE.
BYT. S. ARTHUR.
PHILADELPHIA:
LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO & CO.
No. 20 NORTH FOURTH STREET.
J. W. BRADLEY, 48 N. FOURTH ST.
1854.ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1854, BY T. S. ARTHUR, IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES IN AND FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON AND CO. PHILADELPHIA.
PUBLISHER'S PREFACE.
THIS new temperance volume, by Mr. Arthur, comes in just at the right time, when the subject of restrictive laws is agitating the whole country, and good and true men everywhere are gathering up their strength for a prolonged and unflinching contest. It will prove a powerful auxiliary in the cause.
"Ten Nights in a Bar-Room" gives a series of sharply drawn sketches of scenes, some of them touching in the extreme, and some dark and terrible. Step by step the author traces the downward course of the tempting vender and his infatuated victims, until both are involved in hopeless ruin. The book is marred by no exaggerations, but exhibits the actualities of bar-room life, and the consequences flowing therefrom, with a severe simplicity, and adherence to truth, that gives to every picture a Daguerrean vividness.
page: 4-5 (Table of Contents) [View Page 4-5 (Table of Contents) ]CONTENTS.
- NIGHT THE FIRST. The "Sickle and Sheaf." Page 7
- NIGHT THE SECOND. The Changes of a Year. 37
- NIGHT THE THIRD. Joe Morgan's Child. 60
- NIGHT THE FOURTH. Death of Little Mary Morgan. 84
- NIGHT THE FIFTH. Some of the Consequences of Tavern-Keeping. 106
- NIGHT THE SIXTH. More Consequences. 134
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- NIGHT THE SEVENTH. Sowing the Wind. Page 153
- NIGHT THE EIGHTH. Reaping the Whirlwind. 198
- NIGHT THE NINTH. A Fearful Consummation. 221
- NIGHT THE TENTH. The Closing Scene at the "Sickle and Sheaf." 235
