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Title: Cutting It out
How to get on the waterwagon and stay there

Author: Samuel G. Blythe

Release Date: April 22, 2009 [EBook #28576]

Language: English

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CUTTING IT OUT

_In Press_

_By the Same Author_

THE FUN OF GETTING THIN

CUTTING IT OUT

HOW TO GET ON THE WATERWAGON
AND STAY THERE

BY
SAMUEL G. BLYTHE

[Illustration: (publisher's symbol)]

CHICAGO
FORBES & COMPANY
1912

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY
THE CURTIS PUBLISHING CO.

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY
FORBES AND COMPANY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Why I Quit 9

II. How I Quit 21

III. What I Quit 31

IV. When I Quit 45

V. After I Quit 57

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

This work originally appeared in _The Saturday Evening Post_ under the
title "On the Water-Wagon."

CUTTING IT OUT

CHAPTER I

WHY I QUIT

First off, let me state the object of the meeting: This is to be a
record of sundry experiences centering round a stern resolve to get on
the waterwagon and a sterner attempt to stay there. It is an entirely
personal narrative of a strictly personal set of circumstances. It is
not a temperance lecture, or a temperance tract, or a chunk of advice,
or a shuddering recital of the woes of a horrible example, or a
warning, or an admonition--or anything at all but a plain tale of an
adventure that started out rather vaguely and wound up rather
satisfactorily.

I am no brand that was snatched from the burning; no sot who picked
himself or was picked from the gutter; no drunkard who almost wrecked a
promising career; no constitutional or congenital souse. I drank liquor
the same way hundreds of thousands of men drink it--drank liquor and
attended to my business, and got along well, and kept my he