Perhaps you have heard of me and my international campaign in the cause of temperanmer.
Each year for the past fourteen years I have made a tour of Australia and New Zealand delivering a series of lectures on the evils of drinking.
On those tours I have been accompanied by a young friend and assistant, Clyde Lindson. Clyde, a young man of good family and excellent background, is a pathetic example of a life ruined by excessive indulgence in wine, whiskey and women.
Clyde would appear with me at my lectures and sit out front on the platform drunk, wheezing, staring at the audience through bleary and bloodshot eyes, sweating profusely, picking his nose, belching and breaking wind and making obscene gestures at the ladies present, while I would point him out as an example of what over- indulgence can do to a person.
This year, unfortunately, Clyde passed away. A mutual friend and companion has given me your name and I wonder if you would be available to take Clyde's place on my 2015 tour.
