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THE DRINKER'S COMMANDMENTS
Wallace Rice
These ten commandments you'll observe
If drink you'd master, and not serve.
I First,study where to draw the line:
' If eight will answer, why take nine?
-y Of your day's being learn the state:
^ Sometimes three go as far as eight.
3 Dilute your liquor always; or
Your stomach has to go to war.
4 Sit down and take your time; for know
The only pleasure's drinking so.
5 Talk,jest, and laugh: in this way pass
The merry fumes of many a glass.
5 Eat frequently; with spells of food
Three times the drink can be withstood.
mm When your head reels, then stop at once,
'Or else you'll be both sick and dunce.
o Stay up till calm; you'll feel next day
® Much better than the other way.
g Avoid hold-overs: there's a road
' May bring your back too heavy a load.
A And,if with drinking you must brawl,
^ For love of Man,don't drink ot all!
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