The Old Soak was silent a moment, and then he said: “This here installment of my diary of booze takes up that very point of quarrellin' with the Old Woman.”
CHAPTER EIGHT—The Old Soak's History—More Evils of Prohibition
WELL, another kick I got on the abvolition of ' the barroom is the fact that you got to stay around home so much and that naturally leads to having a row with your wife.
When there was barrooms my wife used to jaw me every time I come home anyways lit up and I just let her jaw me and there wasn't any row for I figured better let her get away with it who knows maybe she thinks she is right about it.
But now I stick around home a good deal of the time and it leads to words.
Well, she says to me, why don't you go and get a job of work of some kind.
Well, I tell her, mind your own business I always been a good pervider ain't I. You have got five or six children working for you ain't you and a man that pervides his wife with five or six children to work for her is not going to listen to no back talk.
Well, she says, you ought to be ashamed to loaf around home all the time.