Moral for this tale is thus:
Water-Wave can not drowned Drink Dragon, but it can cause very unhappy feelings for that brutal beast, thank you.
Hoping you are the same,
Yours truly,
Hashimura Togo.
XXXIII
THE SALOON IN OUR TOWN
San Francisco, October 28th.
To Editor New York Newspaper who offer prize to letter-writer what can tell storey of best Drunk and can prove it.
Hon. Dear—In our town resides many Saloons; and when you have saw them all you will be surprise to find there is several more just around corner. Many of them Saloons can be told apart by looking at them. Some of them is paint bright & goddy colour of a ottomobiles with screeches at doors where they are red & purpal. Drunkerds what see that mad-coloured outside must go inside & forget it. And when they are inside they must stay there long time for nervus collapse. When they are inside they can’t not see the outside—and in such a state who knows what?