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id: 318
title: John Barleycorn
author: London, Jack
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  life lives, and John Barleycorn gives them the lie." I was five years old the first time I got drunk. To this day I conquer it every time I take a drink. until, after long years, the time should come when I would look up John made men happy in spending good money for beer for a fellow like me who that I was a good fellow ashore with my money, buying drinks like a man. wharf and got ashore in the congregating places of men, where drink Drink as I would, I couldn''t come to like John Barleycorn. Nelson had seen drink-crazed men, and thought I wanted to throw myself And I, the long time intimate of John Barleycorn, knew just what he I never took a drink until my day''s work of writing I took another drink every time John Barleycorn reminded me of what


id: 13332
title: Fifteen Years in Hell: An Autobiography
author: Benson, Luther
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  Many times, lying in my bed after a disgraceful debauch of days'' or weeks'' ever mortal eye gazed upon since the opening of the day of time--since the time, and had suffered very intense pain, but for days before her death I Lewisville, where I remained for more than a week, drinking day and night. For ten months from the time I quit drinking and began to lecture, I years, striving all the time, a living, walking, talking death, and cares, thousand times that day I would have drank though it steeped my soul in thousand times by good-meaning men and women, who do not know how to pray A sleepless night--Try to write on the following day but fail--My friends A sleepless night--Try to write on the following day but fail--My friends drink of liquor, soon got drunk, and so remained for days.


id: 35866
title: "I Conquered"
author: Titus, Harold
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  Danny raised his hands in a half-gesture of pleading, but the old man "Look here, boy," the man said, stepping close, "you was crazy for "Come on!" the man snapped, turning to look at the loitering Danny. The little man''s voice rose shrilly and his eyes flashed until Danny, Jed put a hand on the boy''s shoulder and gazed into the drawn face. The horses came toward him, and Danny, at Jed''s shout, commenced to Jed loosed his cinch before he answered: "Horses is like some men. "Look!" the old man said in a low voice, pointing into the gulch. And the boy thought he heard the older man thank his God. Without words, they unharnessed and went to the cabin. He said to Jed: "This man insulted the Captain. "I think he''ll come to like you," said VB, looking from his horse to "Ain''t this a good place, VB?" Jed asked, turning his eyes away from a


id: 41139
title: The Drunkard
author: Thorne, Guy
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  This new man, this Gilbert Lothian, would be great. "Good-evening, sir," he said, deferentially, as Doctor Sims was taken When the door of the house had closed after him, and with Mr. Amberley''s courteous but grave good-night ringing in his ears, Gilbert "Good heavens!" said a huge man with a blood red face, startling in its A little elderly man like a diseased doll, came up and began to Lothian''s own house, a keen-faced man with a pointed beard, a slim, "Dear little Rita," he said, as he held her hand outside the door of "Look here, Doctor," he said after a moment, "I spoke like a fool, "Of course," he said, talking in a quiet man-of-the-world voice, "_I_ "Poor little man," Rita said, looking at the sad face of the comedian. "Gilbert Lothian is coming here during this afternoon," he said. "Mr. Gilbert Lothian, I think," the pleasant-looking man said, staring


id: 45525
title: The Betrayal of John Fordham
author: Farjeon, B. L. (Benjamin Leopold)
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  God and man sanction it," she said, and I let her have her way. Barbara, however, said she could not eat, and Maxwell cried pleasures which a man at my time of life might naturally look forward "Now sit down, like a good boy," said Barbara, "and send the agent a "Barbara," I said gravely, "it is a strange question, I know, but do "I have had a lovely day," said Barbara, as Annette assisted her to "Annette," said I, addressing the woman in French, "leave the room." dear little home shall be an unexpected pleasure to John,'' I said to "We shall come back," said Maxwell, and I slammed the door in his "Barbara is still alive, dear brother-in-law," said Maxwell, laughing John and Louis Fordham from the street door to the room on the first "He believes you to be dead," said Maxwell to Louis.


id: 59724
title: The Baritone''s Parish; or, "All Things to All Men"
author: Ludlow, James M. (James Meeker)
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  "Yes," said the doctor, "I was pleased with the man''s voice. "Doctor," said Vox, suddenly poising the spoon as if it were a baton, "I wish I had your faith, doctor," said Vox, putting his arm around "Well," said Vox, drawing a long breath, and letting it out in a the line of the hymn you gave out to-night, doctor;" and Vox sang: "Yes," said Vox, "I''ve heard Joe Jefferson say that he couldn''t act Vox looked in amazement at the singer--a half-drunken youngish man "You''ve enough rye in you for to-night," said Vox. "See here, Vox," said the doctor, "I am going home alone to-night. "It''s a hard sight, sir," said Sweezy, "but bless you, Mr. Vox, the "Undoubtedly it is so," said Vox, and, seeing the man''s perplexity, man then, Mr. Vox, only a beast; and, if you will believe me, I was not "That," said Vox, "is the greatest compliment a man can have.


id: 60671
title: The Last Days of L.A.
author: Smith, George H. (George Henry)
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  street again and head toward the place you always think of as The Bar. A wino edges up to you and asks for money to buy a sandwich and a cup "We''re facing the end of the world," says John, "and you worry about round-faced little man is talking to a few listless people. I know because it''s the Word of God, my friends! says, "Listen to the words of the Space People. People and feel that this world can be saved only through the aid of you people of Earth think of as the head of the government of the good from where you sit but you think it might look even better up "The Power of God will save you," she says to the little boy now "I think they''re tingling a little," he says. Do you prefer to think of some man''s hand running over your


