The Old Soak ; and, Hail and farewell . M AND THE ARTS 25 somehow and the wife is too busy to talk to me andthe rest of the family is at work or somewheres. Well, another evil is I been doing too much read-ing and that will rot out your brains unless of courseit is the good book and you get kind of mixed up withall them revelations and things. And you get tiredfiguring out almanacs and the book with 1,000drummers jokes in it dont sound so good in printas when a fellow tells them to you and I never wasmuch of a one for novels. \Miat I like is books aboutsomething you could maybe know about your
The Old Soak ; and, Hail and farewell . M AND THE ARTS 25 somehow and the wife is too busy to talk to me andthe rest of the family is at work or somewheres. Well, another evil is I been doing too much read-ing and that will rot out your brains unless of courseit is the good book and you get kind of mixed up withall them revelations and things. And you get tiredfiguring out almanacs and the book with 1,000drummers jokes in it dont sound so good in printas when a fellow tells them to you and I never wasmuch of a one for novels. \Miat I like is books aboutsomething you could maybe know about yourselfand maybe some of them old-time wonders of theworld with explanations of how they was nobody that was on the spot took the trouble toexplain a lot of them things which is why I am settingdown w^hat the barroom was like so help me. Well, in the next chapter I will describe it somemore or future generations will have no notion ofthem without the Constitution of the United Stateschanges its mind and comes to its census Chapter SevenAn Argument With the Old Woman ^ I ^HE Old Woman and me had quite an argument-*- last Sunday, said the Old Soak. It ended upwith her turning a saucepan full of hot peas onto mybald spot, which aint no way to treat garden truck,with the cost of things what they be. But I won one of these here moral victories, evenif she did get the best of me and chase me out of thehouse. It all come about over some pie we had for dinneron Sunday. It looked like mince pie to me when sheset it on the table, and I says to her why dont shemake some rhubarb pie or apple pie or something,for this is a hell of a time of year to be having mincepie. And mince pie aint no good anyhow unlessyou put a shot of brandy or hard cider into it. Sheknows I orter be careful what I put into mystomach, which is all to the bad since I cant getthe right kind of drink any more, and I told herso. 26 AN ARGUMENT 27 *Well, then, says she, this aint mince is raisin pie
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