tailieunhanh - The Old Game

In a few minutes it will be three years and a half since I have taken a drink. In six years, six months, and a few minutes it will be ten years. Then I shall begin to feel I have some standing among the chaps who have quit. Three years and a half seems quite a period of abstinence to me, but I am constantly running across men who have been on the wagon for five and ten and twelve and twenty years; and I know, when it comes to merely not taking any, I am a piker as yet. However, I have well-grounded. | The Old Game by Samuel G. Blythe 1 The Old Game by Samuel G. Blythe The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Old Game by Samuel G. Blythe This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Old Game A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon Author Samuel G. Blythe Release Date July 2 2009 EBook 29292 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE OLD GAME Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive American Libraries. The Old Game A Retrospect After Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon By Samuel G. Blythe The Old Game by Samuel G. Blythe 2 Author of The Price of Place Cutting It Out etc. etc. New York George H. Doran Company COPYRIGHT 1914 BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY The Old Game CONTENTS PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY 9 II. A BACKWARD GLANCE FROM A HILLOCK OF ABSTINENCE 15 III. GETTING THE ALCOHOL OUT OF ONE S SYSTEM 21 IV. THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED IN VAIN 29 V. A THIRSTY NATION S NEED 37 VI. THE JEERS OF THE SMART ALECS 45 VII. MORE TIME FOR OTHER THINGS 51 VIII. LEISURE PUT TO GOOD USES 59 IX. ALCOHOL AND THE TOLL IT TAKES 67 I Introductory In a few minutes it will be three years and a half since I have taken a drink. In six years six months and a few minutes it will be ten years. Then I shall begin to feel I have some standing among the chaps who have quit. Three years and a half seems quite a period of abstinence to me but I am constantly running across men who have been on the wagon for five and ten and twelve and twenty years and I know when it comes to merely not taking any I am a piker as yet. However I have well-grounded hopes. The fact is a drink could not be put into me