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Show Which Do Yon Prefer? "If you prefer the keg of lager or the bottle bot-tle of wine to me," said Mar', "just take them to the magistrate and get married to them." "What do you mean?" said John. "Just what I say. I don't want a young man to come here evenings chewing cloves to cover his breath, and hide his habits of drinking. If you like lager more than you love me, just marry it at once, and don't divide your affections between a woman and wine or a woman and lager; love and liquor have no affinity. , "Why, Mary, how you talk!" exclaimed ex-claimed John. "Yes, I mean what I say; unless you sign the pledge ai.d keep it, you had better not call here again." John did sign the pledge, and he kept it, and he married Mary. Ex, |