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John Barleycorn

CHAPTER IX
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Wrong conduct that it is impossible for one to do sober, is done quite easily when one is not sober.

In fact, it is the only thing one can do, for John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between one's immediate desires and long-learned morality.
I dismissed my thought of debt to Mammy Jennie and proceeded to get acquainted at the trifling expense of some trifling money and a jingle that was growing unpleasant.

Who took me on board and put me to bed that night I do not know, but I imagine it must have been Spider..


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