"Do you think there's a chance of prohibition's being repealed, after all?"
"I hope not," answered Uncle Bill Bottletop; "anyhow, not soon."
"I thought you didn't quite approve of prohibition."
"I don't, quite. But for years folks have been talking about a lot o' chaps that 'ud be such wonders if they didn't drink, an' I want to see 'em get a little more time to make good."
"It is indeed a pleasure," remarked the man who approves of prohibition, "to be able to walk the streets without seeing a saloon on every corner."
"And yet," returned the unregenerate one, "it's a great comfort to know they are there, even if you don't see them."
Prohibition doesn't prohibit; it just provokes.