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422 APPENDIX. And as to those tavern-keepers among us, who keep repu- table houses, and discourage tippling and tavern haunting, espe- cially of towns-people, and who steadily disallow of drunken- ness, profanity, high scrapes and immorality, generally, at their houses, and resolutely refuse dealing out liquors, when men have gotten enough for their good, and when more would only hurt them ; to tavern-keepers of this description, we tender our best wishes, intending to patronize them, by recommending their houses, and giving them, so far as we conveniently can, the pre- ference of our custom, as often as occasion shall require our visit- ing public houses ; while at the same time, we design, by our influence, and by avoiding, as far as we consistently can, all houses of a different description, to disapprove and discounten- ance the conduct of those who keep them : and who render them- selves unworthy the approbation and support of the respectable part of the community, by encouraging or even allowing of shameful doings and disgraceful carryings-on, at their houses : and by feeding town-tipplers and drunkards with liquor, when they^have already gotten enough, and too much ; and when they ought to deny, and send them home,'^to provide for their suf- fering families ; instead of pouring out, and being pleased with seeing them pour doion, dram after dram, and grog after grog, till they are lost to shame, and worse than lost to themselves, their families, friends and society; — till they become a nuisance, a living stench and chastisement, or a very pest and judgment to all about them ! And as to those young men and old, middle-aged, and boys, if of all such ages the^e be, who have betaken themselves, not to constant, but to occasional, high scrapes, bacchanalian frolics, and drunken carousals,— we counsel them to desist. We do not give them over, indiscriminately, for lost : but recall them, all of them, who are not past recovery, gone, and given over to a reprobate mind, and to believe in a lie, till they plunge headlong into destruction, — All those, not thus irreclaimably