figured black silk with glass buttons jones a steady looking not very memorable person with a colored yet they were all so well fed and clean they all shouted with such that seemed to be cousins and the strange thing is that the longer one knew the women the less alike they seemed while the longer one knew the men the more alike their bold patterns appeared the drinking of the was as a as the mixing the company waited uneasily agreeing in a strained manner that the weather had been rather warm and slightly cold but still said nothing about drinks they became but when the late couple the had arrived hinted well folk do you think you stand breaking the law a little they looked at the recognized lord of language pulled at his eye glass cord as at a bell rope he cleared his throat and said that which was the custom ni tell you george i m a law abiding man but they do say is a regular and of course he s bigger n i am and i just can t figure out what i d do if he tried to force me into anything criminal was roaring well take a chance � when held up his hand and went on so if and you insist i ll park my car on the wrong side of the street because i take it for granted that s the crime you re at i there was a great deal of laughter mrs jones asserted mr is simply too killing you d think he was so innocent how did you guess it well you all just wait a moment i go out and get the � keys to your cars through a of merriment he brought the shining promise the mighty tray of glasses with the cloudy yellow in the glass in the the men oh have a look and this gets me t where i live and let me at it but a man and not unused to woes was stricken by the thought that the might be merely fruit with a little spirits he looked as a moist and held out a glass but as he tasted it he oh man let me dream on it ain t true but don t me slumber two hours before had completed a newspaper beginning sat alone and and and scratched my head and sighed and and groaned there are who d like the old time gin back that den that makes a sage a the vile and old saloon never miss their poison whilst i the spring can use that leaves my head at merry mom as clear as any babe new born drank with the others his moment s was gone he perceived that these were the best fellows in the world he wanted to give them a thousand think you could stand another he cried the wives refused with but the men q in a wide elaborate manner well sooner than have you get sore at me � you got a little coming said to each of them and each squeeze it squeeze when beyond hope the was empty they stood and talked about the men leaned back on their heels put their hands in their trousers pockets and proclaimed their views with the of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever now tell you said way i figure it is this and i can speak by the book because i ve talked to a lot of doctors and fellows that ought to know and the way i see it is that it s a good thing to get rid of the saloon but they ought to let a fellow have beer and light observed what isn t generally realized is that it s a dangerous to the rights of per liberty now take this for instance the king of � i think it was � yes it was � in march he issued a against public of live stock the had stood for without the slightest complaint but when this came out they or it may have been but it just goes to show the dangers of the rights of per liberty that s it � no one got a right to personal liberty said jones just the same you don t want to forget is a mighty good thing for the working classes keeps em from wasting their money and lowering their said yes that s so but the trouble is the manner of insisted didn t understand the right system now if i d been running the i d have arranged it so that the himself was and then we could have taken care of the workman � kept him from drinking � and yet not ve interfered with the rights � with the personal liberty � of fellows like ourselves they their heads looked at one another and stated that s so that would be the the thing that me is that a lot of these will take to sighed they more violently and groaned that s so there is a danger of that oh say i got hold of a swell new receipt for home made beer the other day you take � interrupted wait let me tell you mine i beer i thing to do is to jones insisted i ve got the receipt that does the business begged oh say tell you the story � but went on resolutely you take and save the shells from peas and pour six of water on a of shells and boil the mixture till � mrs turned toward them with yearning hastened to finish even his best beer and she said gaily dinner is served there was a good deal of friendly argument among the men bs to which should go in last and while they were crossing the hall from the living 