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Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell

Name: Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell
Author: Don Marquis

Don Marquis

Read by KevinS, Larry Wilson, donj31, John, Matthew D. Robinson, April6090, Phil Chenevert, Michele Fry, Anita Sloma-Martinez, ChadH94 and oogiesragdoll · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Introducing the Old Soak (4:27)
Beginning the Old Soak's History of the Rum Demon (6:40)
Liquor and Hennery Simms (4:21)
The Old Soak's History—The Barroom as an Educative Influence (5:05)
Look Out For Crime Waves! (5:43)
Continuing the Old Soak's History—The Barroom and the Arts (8:52)
An Argument With the Old Woman (2:58)
The Old Soak's History—More Evils of Prohibition (5:27)
Preparing for Christmas (8:07)
Continuing the History—the Old Soak Fears for the Growing Children (5:39)
Jabe Potter's Optimism (4:06)
More of the History—As It Used to Be of a Morning (6:21)
Peace and Contentment (3:47)
Continuing the History of the Rum Demon—Unfermented Grape Juice (7:10)
Political Talk (2:32)
The History Continued—Prohibition and Winter Weather (5:38)
The Old Soak Finds a Way (3:07)
The History Continued—the Barroom's Good Influence (3:38)
A House Divided (4:19)
Continuing the History of the Rum Demon—the Barroom and Manners (3:24)
Sympathy Wanted (5:42)
The History of the Rum Demon Concluded—Prohibition Is Making a Free Thinker of the Old Soak (6:54)
Hail and Farewell—A Last Drink (1:25)
Hail and Farewell—In the Old Days (1:23)
Hail and Farewell—A Dipsey Chantey (2:39)
Hail and Farewell—A Certain Club (1:09)
Hail and Farewell—A Temperance Tract (3:49)
Hail and Farewell—A Vision in the Night (1:22)
Hail and Farewell—The Last Case of Gin (3:04)
Hail and Farewell—Crowned Singers (1:22)
Hail and Farewell—Down in a Wine Vault (3:33)
Hail and Farewell—Anacreon (1:14)
Hail and Farewell—There Were Giants in the Old Days (1:34)
Hail and Farewell—In an Old-Time Tavern Booth (1:29)
Hail and Farewell—The Old Brass Railing (2:58)
Hail and Farewell—Once Youth Was Mine (1:14)
Hail and Farewell—In a Tavern Booth (1:22)
Hail and Farewell—An Engagement (1:14)
Hail and Farewell—The Battle of the Keyholes (2:45)
Hail and Farewell—In a Tavern Booth (1:22)
Hail and Farewell—Yearnings and Memories (1:09)
Hail and Farewell—Do You Remember? (1:22)
Hail and Farewell—And You may Kecall This (1:45)
Hail and Farewell—True, but What of It? (1:09)
Hail and Farewell—A Summer Day Dream (1:16)
Hail and Farewell—On Swearing Off Again (1:19)
Hail and Farewell—After Several Highballs (1:11)
Hail and Farewell—Chant Royal of the Dejected Dipsomaniac (4:05)
Hail and Farewell—Proverbs XXIII, 29 (1:45)
Hail and Farewell—An Object Lesson (2:16)
Hail and Farewell—A Kansas Tragedy (6:47)