Louis and I were two healthy youths.

We didn't want to drink.

We couldn't afford to drink.

And yet we were driven by the circumstance of cold and rainy weather to seek refuge in a saloon, where we had to spend part of our pitiful dole for drink.

It will be urged by some critics that we might have gone to the Y.M.C.A., to night school, and to the social circles and homes of young people.