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    The Old Game A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon
    The Old Game A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon
    The Old Game A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon
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    The Old Game A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon

    By Samuel G. (Samuel George) Blythe

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Old Game A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon - Samuel G. (Samuel George) Blythe

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      Title: The Old Game

      A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon

      Author: Samuel G. Blythe

      Release Date: July 2, 2009 [EBook #29292]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE OLD GAME ***

      Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      The Old Game

      A Retrospect After Three

      and a Half Years on

      the Water-wagon

      By

      Samuel G. Blythe

      Author of The Price of Place,

      Cutting It Out, etc. etc.

      New York

      George H. Doran Company

      Copyright, 1914

      By George H. Doran Company

      CONTENTS

      I.Introductory

      II.A Backward Glance from a Hillock of Abstinence

      III.Getting the Alcohol Out of One's System

      IV.Those Who Have Suffered in Vain

      V.A Thirsty Nation's Need

      VI.The Jeers of the Smart Alecs

      VII.More Time for Other Things

      VIII.Leisure Put to Good Uses

      IX.Alcohol and the Toll It Takes

      I: Introductory

      In a few minutes it will be three years and a half since I have taken a drink. In six years, six months, and a few minutes it will be ten years. Then I shall begin to feel I have some standing among the chaps who have quit. Three years and a half seems quite a period of abstinence to me, but I am constantly running across men who have been on the wagon for five and ten and twelve and twenty years; and I know, when it comes to merely not taking any, I am a piker as yet. However, I have well-grounded hopes. The fact is, a drink could not be put into me except with the aid of an anesthetic and a funnel; but, for all that, I am no bigot.

      I look at this non-drinking determination of mine as a purely individual proposition. Let me get the stage set properly at the beginning of my remarks. I have no advice to offer and no counsel to give. Most of my best friends drink and I never have said and never shall say them nay. It is up to them—not up to me. I have no prejudices in the matter. If my friends want to drink I am for that—for them.

      These things are mentioned to establish my status in the premises. I have no sermon to preach—no warning to convey. I have no desire to impress my convictions on the subject of drinking liquor on any person whatever. That is not my mission. So far as I

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