His face was much flushed, his hat was on the back of his head and there was a wild glare in his eyes. Some vf them passed without speak-ug, and the colonel laughed bitterly He was getting desperate. When-ver he would get to a vacant lot, he would stop and gaze searchingly in every direction to see if the coast was so that he could pull out the flask' and drop it. People began to watch him fiom windows, and two or three little boys began to fall hi The colonel turned round and poke sharply to them, and they ephod:
"Look at the old guy with a jag on lookin' for a place to lie down. W'y don't ver go to de calaboose and snooze it off, mister?
He was about to drop the flask when he heard a noise, and looking up he saw his minister standing in path before him, gazing at him with horrified eyes.
"My dear Colonel—," said the good man. "You distress me beyond measure. I never knew you drank I am indeed deeply grieved to see you here in this condition."
000 Gallons in Two Weeks The colonel was infuriated beyond control. "Don't give a d—if you are," he shouted. "Im drunk as a bojjed and I don't care who knows it.
Im alway drunk. I've drunk 15,000
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