“I got a bar of my own all fixed up in my bedroom and there's going to be a hot water kettle near by it and a bowl of this here Tom and Jerry setting onto it as big as life. “And every time I wake up I'll crawl out of bed and say to myself: 'Better have just one more.' “'Well, now,' myself will say to me, 'just _one!_ I really hadn't orter have that one; I've had so many--but just one goes.' “And then we'll mix it right solemn and pour in the hot water, standing there in front of the bar, with our foot onto the railing, me and myself together, and myself will say to me: “'Well, old scout, you better have another afore you go. It's gettin' right like holiday weather outside.' “'I hadn't really orter,' I will say to myself again, 'but it's a long time to next holidays, ain't it, old scout? And here's all the appurtenances of the season to you, and may it sing through your digestive ornaments like a Christmas carol. Another one, Ed.' “And then I'll skip around behind the bar and play I was Ed, the bartender, and say, 'Are they too sweet for you, sir?' “And then I'll play I was myself again and say, 'No, they ain't, Ed. They're just right. Ask that feller down by the end of the bar, Ed, to join us. I know him, but I forget his name.' “And then I'll play I was the feller and say I hadn't orter have another but I will, for it's always fair weather when good fellows gets together. “And then me and myself and that other feller will have three more, because each one of us wants to buy one, and then Ed the bartender will say to have one on the house. And then I'll go to sleep again and hibernate some more. And don't you call me out of that there room till along about noon on the second day of January. I'll be alone in there with my joy and my grief and all them memories.” CHAPTER TEN--Continuing the History--the Old Soak Fears for the Growing Children ANOTHER thing wrong with Prohibition that will one day make them sorry they passed that commandment onto the constitution is the way it will bring liquor in front of the growing children and if the children learns to drink it too young what will become of this country I would like to know when the next war comes along. I guess they didn't think of that, all these here wise Johnnies when they passed that law. When you used to get all you wanted in a barroom you went there for it and the children didn't see you and they couldn't go into them places and it wasn't sticking around under the children's noses at home all the time making them ask Pa what do you need with so much of that medicine and can I have some Pa. But now you have it at home and it is sticking under their noses all the time and the chances are millions and millions of children will learn to drink too soon just because it is sticking under their noses all the time and that is what Prohibition is doing for this country for everyone knows if they drink it too soon it will stunt their growths.