THE OLD SOAK, and HAIL AND FAREWELL

Line Drawings By Sterling Patterson

OLD SOAK

CHAPTER ONE—Introducing the Old Soak

CHAPTER TWO—Beginning the Old Soak’s History of the Rum Demon

CHAPTER THREE—Liquor and Hennery Simms

CHAPTER FOUR—The Old Soak’s History—The Barroom as an Educative Influence

CHAPTER FIVE—Look Out For Crime Waves!

CHAPTER SIX—Continuing the Old Soak’s History—The Barroom and the Arts

CHAPTER SEVEN—An Argument With the Old Woman

CHAPTER EIGHT—The Old Soak’s History—More Evils of Prohibition

CHAPTER NINE—Preparing for Christmas

CHAPTER TEN—Continuing the History—the Old Soak Fears for the Growing Children

CHAPTER ELEVEN—Jabe Potter’s Optimism

CHAPTER TWELVE—More of the History—As It Used to Be of a Morning

CHAPTER THIRTEEN—Peace and Contentment

CHAPTER FOURTEEN—Continuing the History of the Rum Demon—Unfermented Grape Juice

CHAPTER FIFTEEN—Political Talk

CHAPTER SIXTEEN—The History Continued—Prohibition and Winter Weather

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN—The Old Soak Finds a Way

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN—The History Continued—the Barroom’s Good Influence

CHAPTER NINETEEN—A House Divided

CHAPTER TWENTY—Continuing the History of the Rum Demon—the Barroom and Manners

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE—Sympathy Wanted

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO—The History of the Rum Demon Concluded—Prohibition Is Making a Free Thinker of the Old Soak

HAIL AND FAREWELL

I—A LAST DRINK

II—IN THE OLD DAYS

III—A DIPSEY CHANTEY

IV—A CERTAIN CLUB

V—A TEMPERANCE TRACT

VI—A VISION IN THE NIGHT

VII—THE LAST CASE OF GIN

VIII—CROWNED SINGERS

IX—DOWN IN A WINE VAULT

X—ANACREON

XI—THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE OLD DAYS

XII—IN AN OLD-TIME TAVERN BOOTH

XIII—THE OLD BRASS RAILING

XIV—ONCE YOUTH WAS MINE

XV—IN A TAVERN BOOTH

XVI—AN ENGAGEMENT

XVII—THE BATTLE OF THE KEYHOLES

XVIII—IN A TAVERN BOOTH

XIX—YEARNINGS AND MEMORIES

XX—DO YOU REMEMBER?

XXI—AND YOU MAY KECALL THIS

XXII—TRUE, BUT WHAT OF IT?

XXIII—A SUMMER DAY DREAM

XXIV—ON SWEARING OFF AGAIN

XXV—AFTER SEVERAL HIGHBALLS

XXVI—CHANT ROYAL OF THE DEJECTED DIPSOMANIAC

XXVII—PROVERBS XXIII, 29

XXVIII—AN OBJECT LESSON

XXIX—A KANSAS TRAGEDY