The Old Soak ; and, Hail and farewell . Book says, and every member of thefambly has took sides one way or the other twixtmy son and my son-in-lawr, and the 01 Woman isagin both on em, and agin me, too—a-prayin ana-prayin an a-prayin. A HOUSE DIVIDED 69 ***You went and prayed for years an years so asto get prohibishn, I tells her; an now you got it—you got more on it than any woman I knows, for itscome right into your own home. An now you got ityou aint satisfied with it—there you be onto yourmarrow bones prayin agin the revenooers. I spose I was too hifalutin an ambitious,wantin to keep two m
The Old Soak ; and, Hail and farewell . Book says, and every member of thefambly has took sides one way or the other twixtmy son and my son-in-lawr, and the 01 Woman isagin both on em, and agin me, too—a-prayin ana-prayin an a-prayin. A HOUSE DIVIDED 69 ***You went and prayed for years an years so asto get prohibishn, I tells her; an now you got it—you got more on it than any woman I knows, for itscome right into your own home. An now you got ityou aint satisfied with it—there you be onto yourmarrow bones prayin agin the revenooers. I spose I was too hifalutin an ambitious,wantin to keep two members of my fambly into therevenooer job. And as long as my son-in-lawrstays into office and continues to make his home withme I wont have no kick comin, but will take myhootch in thankfulness and humility, like the GoodBook says to do, eatin, drinkin an bein yere leetle cloud of gloom what you noticeis due to the 01 Womans prayers. I caint helpbut feel she is goin direct agin Scripter and her hus-bands best Chapter Twenty Continuing the History of the Rum Demon—the Bar^room and Manners A NOTHER thing about those barrooms that has-^ ^ been vanished forever is the fact that most ofthem was right pohte sort of places if a fellow edgedup to the bar and knocked over your glass of whiskeyor something like that he would say, O excuse mestranger and you would say sure, but look where inhell you are going to after this. Sure he would say no offence meant. No offencetaken you would say to him. Have one with mehe would say. No sooner said than done. But nowadays all you see and hear is bad mannersand impoliteness with people hustling and bumpinginto each other on the subways and stepping oneach other and women and children amongst themand nobody ever begging anybodys pardon and hardfeelings everywhere. 70 THE BARROOM AND MANNERS 71 The trouble is everybody is sore and wanting adrink all the time and there is no place where theyounger generation is going to
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