tailieunhanh - Fifteen Years in Hell

The days of long prefaces are past. It is also too near the end of the century to indulge in fulsome dedications. I shall, therefore, trouble the reader with only a brief introduction to this imperfect history of an imperfect life. The conditions under which I write necessarily make it lacking in much that would ordinarily have added to its interest. I write within the Indiana Asylum for the Insane; I have not the means of information at hand which I should have to make the work what it should be, and notes which I had taken from time to time, with a view of. | 1 FIFTEEN YEARS IN HELL Luther Benson CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. Fifteen Years in Hell 2 Fifteen Years in Hell The Project Gutenberg EBook of Fifteen Years in Hell by Luther Benson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Fifteen Years in Hell Author Luther Benson Release Date August 30 2004 EBook 13332 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FIFTEEN YEARS IN HELL Produced by Ted Garvin Christopher Lund and PG Distributed Proofreaders FIFTEEN YEARS IN HELL. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. BY LUTHER BENSON 1885. TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Early shadows--An unmerciful enemy--The miseries of the curse--Sorrow and gloom--What alcohol robs man of--What it does--What it does not do--Surrounding evils--Blighted homes--A Titan devil--The utterness of the destroyer--A truthful narrative-- It stingeth like an adder. CHAPTER II. Birth parentage and early education--Early childhood--Early events--Memory of them vivid--Bitter desolation--An active but uneasy life--Breaking colts for amusement--Amount of sleep--Temperament has much to do in the matter of drink--The author to blame for his misspent life--Inheritances--The excellences of my father and mother--The road to ruin not wilfully trodden--The people s indifference to a great danger--My associates--What became of them--The customs of twenty years ago--What might have been. CHAPTER III. The old log school house--My studies and discontent--My first