I judged I would saw out and leave that night if pap got drunk enough, and I reckoned he would. I got so full of it I didn’t notice how long I was staying till the old man hollered and asked me whether I was asleep or drownded.

I got the things all up to the cabin, and then it was about dark. While I was cooking supper the old man took a swig or two and got sort of warmed up, and went to ripping again. He had been drunk over in town, and laid in the gutter all night, and he was a sight to look at. A body would ’a’ thought he was Adam — he was just all mud. Whenever his liquor begun to work he most always went for the govment.

This time he says:

“Call this a govment! Why, just look at it and see what it’s like. Here’s the law a-standing ready to take a man’s