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June 1964 | Volume 15, Issue 4
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June 1964 | Volume 15, Issue 4
The scene of T. S. Arthur’s gloomy sermon is the rural hamlet of Cedarville, where, during ten nights scattered over a decade, an anonymous travelling man observes the cancerous ravages of the saloon on an innocent community. Stopping for the First Night at the Sickle and Sheaf tavern, he is impressed by his neat lodgings and his friendly landlord, Simon Slade. But this seeming idyl is marred by the sight of the drunkard, Joe Morgan, and the furtive nips taken in the bar by Slade’s twelve-year-old son, Frank. At this point, the slides take up the story: