"I hear that you make some efforts to keep your house decently; the other two I shall send packing directly their terms are up.

Whether you remain permanently must depend upon yourself.

I will do up your house for you, and build a bar parlor alongside, where quiet men can sit and smoke their pipes and talk and take their beer in comfort, and have liberty to enjoy themselves as long as their enjoyment does not cause annoyance to other people or keep their wives and children in rags.

I will do anything for you if I find the place well conducted; but I warn you that I will have no drunkenness.

A man who, to my knowledge, gets drunk twice, will not get drunk a third time in this parish, and if you let men get drunk here it is your fault as much as theirs.