JOHN'S cousin, who is groom to the Squire, has come to see him, and is urging him to accompany him for an hour to the public-house on the Green. But his wife, who is afraid if her husband goes there he will stop too long and drink what is not good for him, is very anxious that he should stay with her, and she says earnestly, "Don't go, John." He is very undecided what to do, but I hope it will end in his staying at home; and if Mrs. John can persuade the cousin to remain with them and take a cup of tea--and she intends trying to make him stay--it will be all the better for all three of them; and they can chat ever so much cosier in the chimney-corner than in the public-house. How many fine young men have been for ever ruined through the intoxicating cup ! Touch it not.
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