The Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell
by Don Marquis
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Chapters (60)
- THE OLD SOAK, and HAIL AND FAREWELL
- Line Drawings By Sterling Patterson
- Garden City, N. Y., and Toronto 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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