2/22 A chain of tiny beads at the top of each bottle lied and said it was good liquor. The boxes themselves said, "This side up"-- when any side up would thrill the soul of the man who owned a wet appetite and a dry throat. Uncle Sam himself must needs polish his spectacles and take another look to detect the fraud. It was a marvelous job of bottling,--and the proof lay only in the drinking. "Tommy" Pepper rode in pint flasks designed to slip safely into a man's coat pocket. |