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The Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell
Don Marquis
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“And I left him still tryin’ to fall down them stairs, and still bein’ carried up again. Which, as I remarked at first, only goes to show that drink will lead to habits if it ain’t watched, even when it ain’t a habit itself.”
“Do you have any more of your History of the Rum Demon written?” we asked him.
“Uh-huh,” said he, and left us the second installment.
CHAPTER FOUR—The Old Soak’s History—The Barroom as an Educative Influence
WELL, as I said in my first installment, some ‘of them barrooms was such genteel places they would surprise you if you had got the idea that they was all gems of . . . Read More
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In which the Old Soak goes to Paris with Jake the bootlegger and Al the bartender, to get culture. "Cat weesky?"
Gets an extra star for Al's speech in Chapter 17, when the O.S. asks him what he's going to do when he gets home with all the tricks he's learned, since he "got nothing to practice them on
Oh, Lord, I love this book. An extended grumble, with illicit tippling. Set 'em up, Ed. And hold the garbage.
Originally published in 1921, The Old Soak is a humorous diary accounting of a good ol’ drunk who talks about what life was like before Prohibition. In the second portion, The Old Soak gives us a history of the world from his recollection.