WELL, when I seen all them men shovelling snow and ice in the streets
and no place to go for a drink and maybe one of them spring thaws coming
along soon now which they are always full of these here la grip germs
I says to myself them Prohibitionists think they have done something
pretty smart but they got another think coming to them.
I never been much of a hand to kick against the weather. As a fact, I
use to like all kinds of weather as it come along.
You went into a place and you said to Ed it looks like one of them cold
rains is going to start up pretty soon, Ed.
Yes, sir, Ed says, it is pretty raw. The wind is rawring. What will you
have?
Well, I use to say, I was wondering about a little Scotch with boiling
water into it and a lump of butter and a lump of sugar into it I knowed
a fellow used to treat himself thataway one time.
No, sir, says Ed, I wouldn't advise anything like that sir, it will get
you sweating inside of you all around your stomach and lungs and then
you will go out and swallow some cold damp air and take one of
them inside colds, sir, and it may run into new-monia or this here
pellicanitis.
Well, Ed, I don't want to ketch none of them germs, you would say to
him, and how about some rock and rye.
You better stick to straight rye and leave out the rock. When you was in
here a little bit ago you was drinking straight rye and you don't want
to be mixing them too much, says Ed.
And no sooner said than done.
Or maybe it was summer time and a hot day and you would say to Ed I
wonder how many people is getting sun struck to-day, Ed.
A good many says Ed they drink too much cold water and it gets to them.