The Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell
Don Marquis
The Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell
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THE OLD SOAK, and HAIL AND FAREWELL
Line Drawings By Sterling Patterson
Garden City, N. Y., and Toronto
Doubleday, Page K Company
Doubleday, Page K Company
1921
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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
To Charley Bayne
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
THE END
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