j- Jimmy's Lecture. ' , ,h . P?ess Leaflet.' V-'J : :"Jiuimy, throw tliat jug into the' r u pig-P8n- Smash it first, and be , ; . sure you don't taste a drop of the ' Tile stuff," said an anxious looking -" woman as she handed her little son V' ' the brown jug which she had just ; ; ifound hidden in the shed. - "father won't like it," began the . 0 "boy, eyeing the ugly thing with a look of fear and hate; for it made v another miserable, and father a hrute. '' ' . :' "I said I'd make way with it the next time I found it, and I will! It h is full, and I don't feel as if I could live through another dreadful time like the last. If we put it out of , sight, maybe father will keep sober J( . f 6r another month. Go quick, be-:ore be-:ore he comes home." And the 0 pdor woman pushed the boy to the door as if she could not wait a, minute till the curse of her life was destroyed. Glad to" comfort her, and have the fun of smashing . any tiling, Jimmy ran off, and, giving the jug a good bang on the : post, let the whiskey run where it would, as he flung the pieces into ? : r . n .-fche pig-pen, and went back to his L; .. vork. He was only eleven; but he k struggled manfully with the old piv.iv. - saw, and the tough apple-tree f ; r boughs he had collected tor tuel. v . It was father's work; but he neg- : . ! lected it, and Jimmy wouldn't see mother suffer froin cold, so he ' " trimmed the trees, and did his best . to keep the fire going. He had to , . stop" often to rest; and in these j ; i 'pauses he talked to himself, having! i; ' ' ' no other company. . : . - Not long after the destruction of j - ; the jug, he heard a great commotion i; " k ' . ' in the pen, and, looking in saw the j 15;" two pigs capering about in a cu- rious way. They ran up and down, ; . ' squealed, skipped, and bumped up i , ' against one another as if they L ' r v I ' didn't see straight, and had no eon- 1l trol of their legs. : Jimmy was much amused for a few minutes; but when one staggered to the trough, and began to lap something there, and the other tumbled down, and could not get up, he understood tho cause of these antics. "Oh dear! I lot tho whiskey run