Crossword-Solution: COALPORTER 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

But I don’t get drunk.” I conversed with several men on the subject of their beer-drinking, but the foregoing is the only statement I met with where a coalporter could give any reason for his faith in the virtues of beer; and vague as in some points it may be, the other reasons I had to listen to were still vaguer.

You see we have a niceish tidy room here, and a few middling sticks, so I can’t be a drunkard.” I now give the statement of a coalporter who had been a teetotaler:--“I have been twenty-two years a coalheaver.

Last of all, I obtained an interview with two coalporters who had been teetotalers for some years:-- “I have been a coalporter ever since I have been able to carry coals,” said one.

They were paid every night where I worked last, and sometimes I have gone home with 2-1/2_d._ Take one with the other, I should say the coalporter’s earnings average about 1_l._ a-week.

The man pictured the drunkard’s home so faithfully, that the arrows of conviction stuck fast in my heart, and my conscience said, Thou art a drunkard, too! The coalporter said his home had been made happy through the principle of total abstinence.