Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


"But that wasn't the yarn I wanted to tell. It seems old Susan
liked John Barleycorn. She'd souse herself to the ears every
chance she got. An' her sons an' daughters an' the old man had to
be mighty careful not to leave any around where she could get
hands on it."


"On what?" asked Saxon.


"On John Barleycorn.--Oh, you ain't on to that. It's the old
fashioned name for whisky. Well, one day all the folks was goin'
away--that was over somewhere at a place called Bodega, where
they'd settled after comin' down from Oregon. An' old Susan
claimed her rheumatics was hurtin' her an' so she couldn't go.
But the family was on. There was a two-gallon demijohn of whisky
in the house. They said all right, but before they left they sent
one of the grandsons to climb a big tree in the barnyard, where
he tied the demijohn sixty feet from the ground. Just the same,
when they come home that night they found Susan on the kitchen
floor dead to the world."

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