The Old Soak ; and, Hail and farewell . kand his heart bleed when he thinks of all them mil-lions and millions of innocent children and the waythey are being ruined with liquor in the home andmaybe helping their daddies make it with yeast andraisins and things and cornmeal in the cellar. I teached my boys to drink in the barroom just asfast as they growed up and teached them to tell goodliquor from bad liquor and not to mix their drinksand not to go in for fancy drinks and to drink alongwith me for a comfort for my old age and a father hadought to make chums of his boys like that and givethem
The Old Soak ; and, Hail and farewell . kand his heart bleed when he thinks of all them mil-lions and millions of innocent children and the waythey are being ruined with liquor in the home andmaybe helping their daddies make it with yeast andraisins and things and cornmeal in the cellar. I teached my boys to drink in the barroom just asfast as they growed up and teached them to tell goodliquor from bad liquor and not to mix their drinksand not to go in for fancy drinks and to drink alongwith me for a comfort for my old age and a father hadought to make chums of his boys like that and givethem the right example and they stay close to him and 40 THE OLD SOAK he knows wliat they are thinking about and can givethem good advice and my boys has been a comfortto me. My boys is all growed up, but what worries me isthe millions and millions of little children that is goingto learn to drink too young. Well, in my next chapter I promise to get down tobrass tacks and tell just exactly what those barroomswas like that has been Chapter ElevenJahe Potters Optimism NO, SIR, said the Old Soak, I aint got sodarned much left. It may get me through ayear, and it may run me only about ten months. But I dont want so much as I use to, for somereason. In course, no gentleman of the old schoolfiggers on less than a quart a day, but there has beentimes when I exceeded that there limit. Lookingback on them times, I dont know whether to be glador sorry. Its a satisfaction to remember that I hadthe liquor, but its a grief to know I wont neverhave that same liquor again. But at a quart a day, if Im careful, and dontgive any parties to new acquaintances that is tooksudden with a love and admiration for me, Ill toddlealong fer ten or twelve months yet. And by thattime, something or other will happen in my favour;you see if it dont. Either the country will backslideinto iniquity again in spots; or else somebody will 41 42 TEE OLD SOAK die and leave me an island down near Cuba; or elseOld
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