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Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

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1M DANGER IN THE DARK.<br />

"A drunkard! do you <strong>in</strong>tend to <strong>in</strong>sult me !"<br />

"By no means---eome, Jim, don't get out of humoryou<br />

called yourself a drunkard; at least confessed<br />

hav<strong>in</strong>g been drunk often enough to entitle any man to<br />

<strong>the</strong> appellation."<br />

" I get elated occasionally; but never allow myself<br />

to be called a drunkard."<br />

" You were somewhat elated, I imag<strong>in</strong>e, <strong>the</strong> night<br />

I rolled you upon wheelbarrow 1"<br />

" nd tumbled me down that confounded old<br />

cellar I"<br />

"When a man is <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> constant habit of gett<strong>in</strong>g<br />

drunk, Jim, I don't know why he should not be called<br />

a drunkard."<br />

"But I don't like <strong>the</strong> sound of <strong>the</strong> word."<br />

"It doesn't sound well, I confess-yet much better<br />

than <strong>the</strong> practice looks. To speak candidly, Jim, we<br />

are throw<strong>in</strong>g ourselves away; and should we follow<br />

up this habit a little while, it's hard to tell what we<br />

may come to; it don't take a man long to brutalize<br />

himself."<br />

"See <strong>the</strong>m good-look<strong>in</strong>g fellows, tipp<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

1118sC8 at <strong>the</strong> bar <strong>the</strong>re-<strong>the</strong>y've been regular dr<strong>in</strong>kers<br />

for years,<br />

lizcd.'<br />

nd I can't discover that <strong>the</strong>y are yet bru-<br />

" All are not men that wear <strong>the</strong> human form."<br />

" 0 - tor orne are women."<br />

" None of your whisky wit; I 'm ra<strong>the</strong>r <strong>in</strong> a sober<br />

mood to-day."

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