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Fenton Johnson, "The Drunkard" (1919)

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THE DRUNKARD

   I had a wife, but she is gone. She left me a week
ago. God bless her!
   I married another in the rear of Mike's saloon.
   It was a gallon jug of the reddest liquor that ever
burned the throat of man. I will be true to my new
wife. You can have the other. 

Published in Others, 1919

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