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 ]
[ 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 ]
[ CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE—Sympathy Wanted ]
[ CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO—The History of the Rum Demon Concluded—Prohibition ]
[ XI—THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE OLD DAYS ]
[ XII—IN AN OLD-TIME TAVERN BOOTH ]
[ XIII—THE OLD BRASS RAILING ]
[ XVII—THE BATTLE OF THE KEYHOLES ]
[ XIX—YEARNINGS AND MEMORIES ]
[ XXI—AND YOU MAY KECALL THIS ]
[ XXII—TRUE, BUT WHAT OF IT? ]
[ XXIV—ON SWEARING OFF AGAIN ]
[ XXV—AFTER SEVERAL HIGHBALLS ]
[ XXVI—CHANT ROYAL OF THE DEJECTED DIPSOMANIAC ]