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are also entitled to a passing reference. Whether national prosperity
ebbs or flows, or whatever party may be in the ascendant, the drink
bill, in the face of preaching and teaching, grows more and more;
and the publicans manage to enjoy and to exercise a corresponding
increase of political power, and that is now always given to one party
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Talfourd
says:-
'Tis a little thing
To give a cup of wafer; yet its draught
Of cool refreshment, drained by feverish lips,
May give a thrill of pleasure to the frame
More exquisite than when nectarian juice
Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
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place drinking-water within reach of many of the poorest, I have,
in co-operation with the Metropolitan Drinking Fountains Association
and the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, placed drinking-fountains
in Victoria Park; Stalbridge Common, Hackney ; The Broadway, Hammersmith;
Edgware Road, Kilburn; the Public Gardens, Woolwich; Duncan Terrace,
Islington; Christchurch, Blackfriars; Hoxton Square; Leyton Square,
Camberwell; Rotherhithe Street, Bermondsey; and Hackney Road Ground,
Shoreditch In constructing these fountains the dog, that faithful
friend of man, and destined so often to be cut up alive to satisfy
deplorable vivisectionist curiosity, has not been forgotten. |
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