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DEVIL'S GRIST A WRETCHED mother who had been imbibing strong ale in a dram shop, entered the door of her home with her child on one arm and a bag of flour on the other. By mistake she threw her child in the meal chest in a closet near at hand, and placed 'the bag of flour in the cradle; then threw herself upon her bed to sleep. During the night the mother was occasionally aroused by the cries of the poor child and once or twice she actually got up and rocked the bag of flour. Morning came and with it the discovery of the darling babe dead in the meal chest, Since then that wretched mother has signed the Pledge. Cold Water Magazine, 1842. [ 73]