Dear Brother in Faith,

Perhaps you have heard of me and my nationwide campaign in the cause of temperance. Each year for the past 14 years, I have made a tour Florida, and Southern Georgia, including Indiana, Iowa, and Illinois, and have delivered a series of lectures on the evils of drinking.

On this tour I have been accompanied by my young friend and assistant Clyde Lindstone. Clyde, a young man of good family and excellent background, is a pathetic example of life ruined by indulgence in whiskey and women.Clyde would appear with me at the lecturers and sit on the platform. wheezing and staring at the audience through bleary bloodshot eyes, sweating profusely, picking his nose, passing gas, and making obscene gestures, while I would point him out as an example of what overindulgence can do to a person.

Last fall, unfortunately, clyde died. A mutual friend has given me your name and I wonder if you would be available to take Clydes place on my tour in 1998.

Signed

Reverand James England

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