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Excerpt from Rummyniscences
On that night, the last on which the serving of spirituous beverages was permissible in the clubs, cafes, and all the other haunts of congenial souls, on that night, sorrowful millions celebrated feverishly throughout the land, and toasted the glorious days that, on the stroke of midnight, were doomed to become a memory. The circle of regulars that attended this final session of the Sun Dodgers, in the tap-room of one of our metro politan clubs, sipped their high-balls soberly and de bated the future solemnly. Even Dennis, Dennis of the stolid visage and the flat pedals, carefully balancing his tray-full of exhilarators and bracers, pussy-footed about with a funereal expression as he officiated at the obsequies of his heretofore generous lord and master, John Barleycorn. What's to become of all the Old familiar types, the popular good-fellow, the ubiquitous man-about town, the East Side's 'regular guy, ' the cabaret hounds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
