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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 25, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 45.

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What It Means.

In the struggle in Rhode Island for the passage of a constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks, it is said that at one of the polls an Irish laboring man took up a ballot for the amendment, intending to vote it.
"Pat," said a liquor dealer to him, "do you know what it means if you vote that ticket?"
"Phwat it manes?" said Pat; "sure it manes that the loike of yez'll have to carry your tin buckets along the sthrate the same as mesilf!" And Pat plumped in his vote.—Sel.