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conversed with him early in the morning: I do not recollect, whether he had then been out: it was before eight o’clock. I then persuaded him to desist from drinking liquor, but do not remember the particulars of my first conversation. I mentioned liquor then because he had been drinking two or three days before. He had drunk liquor on that day (I saw him drink in the forenoon. I do not recollect whether he had drunk on that day before my first conversation with him. The liquor he drank that day did not seem to have a great effect on him; but he told me on the same day, that the liquor he drank was so weak it made him more sober instead of drunken. I do not know what quantity he drank that day. I do not