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men of bar history, Johnnie, in his personal habits, was
one of the strictest professors of prohibition that never
lectured on a platform, nor tried to dictate the habits
of their fellow-men. He was a teetotaler. He never took
a drink in his life, and he never smoked.
The Solon family is one of real antiquity, the earliest
Solon of whom the_re is record antedating any of the
O'Briens, O'Tooles, O'Flahertys, or any other Gaelic
kings, runed or crooned. H?wever, this statement is
made in some
apprehe~sion,
though the Solon of whom
mention is now made, has had a date pinned on to him
by history, between
639
and
559
B.
C., which was some
time before St. Patrick thought of Ireland and snakes.
Solon, a Greek, was famous as a law-giver, and as such
has been much esteemed by ancients and moderns called
to another bar, which, except for those inconveniences
incidental to the discovery of a dependable bootlegger,
has not seemed to have suffered appreciably from any
prohibi'i:ory ban. Particularly was that ancient cham–
pion of the rights of the people, and himself a sort of
early
vox populi,
an authority on debts· and debtors.
Research indicates that that particular Solon was ap–
parently the first of the name, because·his father bore
the appellation "Execestibes," and he was descended
from the noble line of the Codrids, which may or may
not be the English pronunciation of O'Connor-or, pos–
sibly Cavanaugh. At least, a people that, even when
sober, make Magdalen "Maudlin" and Cholmondeley
"Chumley," might do even worse with a good old Irish
name. Look what they did with
Uisgebeatha!
As to whether the original Solon or one of his descend-
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