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Title: A knight that smote the dragon;
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Rand, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1837-1903
Subjects: Gough, John B. (John Bartholomew), 1817-1886
Publisher: New York, Hunt & Eaton Cincinnati, Cranston & Stowe
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the State of Massachusetts in its Legislature there
was a bill on the liquor question before the
house. If not actually prohibitory it was one
restrictive in its application. Those who sent
General Swift to the Legislature were not in
favor of the bill, and they looked to him to
vote accordingly. He intended that his vote
should express their wishes. When the day
for action came, somebody besides his constitu-
ency was looking at him, and that was his
mother, up in the spectators' gallery. She was
there hoping the bill would succeed, desirous
that her son should help give it success. There
she was, watching him. He expected to vote
with the noes, but when about to say no he
chanced to look up to the gallery, and there was
his dear old mother, looking down ! She saw him
even as he saw her. To the astonishment of all,
including the voter himself, his voice rang out
clear and decided, "Aye!" Those who have
heard him know what a robust, penetrating
voice he has. His mother's influence had car-
ried the day, and she was not astonished at the
result. " My son," she said, "I had prayed the
Lord not to let you vote wrong, and I knew you
could not."

66 A KNIGHT THAT SMOTE THE DRAGON.

A mother4s visible influence! If Gough4s
mother could have lived on earth even as she
lived in heaven, and could have brought her
influence to bear upon him before the drink-
chains once so soft and plastic had hardened and
grown rigid, his life might have been very dif-
ferent. As it was, what outlook of encourage-
ment was there for him ?
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DOWN DEEPER.

CHAPTER IX.

DOWN DEEPER.

NEWBURYPORT, Mass., is a charming old
sea-port town. Past it murmurs the bright
Merrimac, with its hushed songs of the blue hills,
crystal lakes, and green forests, which it has seen
and out of whose heart it has rippled and so
come singing down to the sea. The place is one
of varied business interests. The country people
come here to trade, manufacturers here drive
their busy wheels, and at its wharves the vessels
lift their wings and out of the river silently glide.
One winter evening, years ago, there came
from Boston to this interesting old town a young
man. He was not yet twenty-one. He was a
person of versatile talents. He could put a neat
coat on the back of a volume. He could tell and
act out effectively a good story. He could sing.
He had a power over others when he wished to
exert it in appeal that he himself little appreci-
ated. Others felt it but did not adequately rate
it. Social, liking his kind, he might have become

68 A KNIGHT THAT SMOTE THE DRAGON.

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