The Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell - Don MARQUIS

Title: The Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell
Author: Don MARQUIS
Category: Humorous Fiction / Poetry
Time: 02:52:59

Published in 1921 (Prohibition went into effect in January 1920), "Hail and Farewell" is a collection of poems in honour of alcohol, drunkenness, and all things related.

In "The Old Soak", an old codger grumbles and connives to get alcohol in the age of Prohibition. Part is narrative, and part is installments from The Old Soak's papers.
“I'm writing a diary. A diary of the past. A kind of gol-dinged autobiography of what me and Old King Booze done before he went into the grave and took one of my feet with him. In just a little while now there won't be any one in this here broad land of ours, speaking of it geographically, that knows what an old-fashioned barroom was like. They'll meet up with the word, future generations of posterity will, and wonder and wonder and wonder just what a saloon could have resembled, and they will cudgel their brains in vain, as the poet says."
“Have you got any of it written?” we asked him. “Here's the start of it,” said he.
We present it just as the Old Soak penned it. - Summary by TriciaG & from the text

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Introducing the Old SoakBeginning the Old Soak's History of the Rum DemonLiquor and Hennery SimmsThe Old Soak's History—The Barroom as an Educative InfluenceLook Out For Crime Waves!Continuing the Old Soak's History—The Barroom and the ArtsAn Argument With the Old WomanThe Old Soak's History—More Evils of ProhibitionPreparing for ChristmasContinuing the History—the Old Soak Fears for the Growing ChildrenJabe Potter's OptimismMore of the History—As It Used to Be of a MorningPeace and ContentmentContinuing the History of the Rum Demon—Unfermented Grape JuicePolitical TalkThe History Continued—Prohibition and Winter WeatherThe Old Soak Finds a WayThe History Continued—the Barroom's Good InfluenceA House DividedContinuing the History of the Rum Demon—the Barroom and MannersSympathy WantedThe History of the Rum Demon Concluded—Prohibition Is Making a Free Thinker of the Old SoakHail and Farewell—A Last DrinkHail and Farewell—In the Old DaysHail and Farewell—A Dipsey ChanteyHail and Farewell—A Certain ClubHail and Farewell—A Temperance TractHail and Farewell—A Vision in the NightHail and Farewell—The Last Case of GinHail and Farewell—Crowned SingersHail and Farewell—Down in a Wine VaultHail and Farewell—AnacreonHail and Farewell—There Were Giants in the Old DaysHail and Farewell—In an Old-Time Tavern BoothHail and Farewell—The Old Brass RailingHail and Farewell—Once Youth Was MineHail and Farewell—In a Tavern BoothHail and Farewell—An EngagementHail and Farewell—The Battle of the KeyholesHail and Farewell—In a Tavern BoothHail and Farewell—Yearnings and MemoriesHail and Farewell—Do You Remember?Hail and Farewell—And You may Kecall ThisHail and Farewell—True, but What of It?Hail and Farewell—A Summer Day DreamHail and Farewell—On Swearing Off AgainHail and Farewell—After Several HighballsHail and Farewell—Chant Royal of the Dejected DipsomaniacHail and Farewell—Proverbs XXIII, 29Hail and Farewell—An Object LessonHail and Farewell—A Kansas Tragedy

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