THE OLD SOAK, and HAIL AND FAREWELL
By Don Marquis
Line Drawings By Sterling Patterson
Garden City, N. Y., and Toronto
Doubleday, Page K Company
1921
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author thanks the Publishers of the New York Sun, in which the following sketches and verses originally appeared, for permission to reissue them in book form.
CONTENTS
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
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
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
CHAPTER FIFTEEN—Political Talk
CHAPTER SIXTEEN—The History Continued—Prohibition and Winter Weather