The Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell - Free Audiobook

Author(s): Don Marquis,

Language: English

Genre(s): Humorous Fiction Poetry

1 / 51Introducing the Old Soak

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51 Chapter(s)

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

About

Published in 1921 (Prohibition went into effect in January 1920), "Hail and Farewell" is a collection of poems in honour of alcohol, drunkenness, and all things related.

In "The Old Soak", an old codger grumbles and connives to get alcohol in the age of Prohibition. Part is narrative, and part is installments from The Old Soak's papers.
“I'm writing a diary. A diary of the past. A kind of gol-dinged autobiography of what me and Old King Booze done before he went into the grave and took one of my feet with him. In just a little while now there won't be any one in this here broad land of ours, speaking of it geographically, that knows what an old-fashioned barroom was like. They'll meet up with the word, future generations of posterity will, and wonder and wonder and wonder just what a saloon could have resembled, and they will cudgel their brains in vain, as the poet says."
“Have you got any of it written?” we asked him. “Here's the start of it,” said he.
We present it just as the Old Soak penned it. - Summary by TriciaG & from the text

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