The Old Soak
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Excerpt from The Old Soak: And Hail and Farewell Our friend, the Old Soak, came in from his home in Flatbush to see us not long ago, in anything but a jovial mood. "I see that some persons think there is still hope for a liberal interpretation of the law so that beer and light wines may be sold," said we. "Hope," said he, moodily, "is a fine thing, but it don´t gurgle none when you pour it out of a bottle. Hope is all right, and so is Faith ... but what I would like to see is a little Charity. "As far as Hope is concerned, I´d rather have Despair combined with a case of Bourbon liquor than all the Hope in the world by itself. "Hope is what these here fellows has got that is tryin´ to make their own with a tea-kettle and a piece of hose. That´s awful stuff, that is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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