Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Ouch!


Cider was, next to water, the most abundant and the cheapest fluid to be had in New Hampshire, while i lived there,--often selling for a dollar per barrel. In many a family of six or eight persons, a barrel tapped on Saturday barely lasted a full week...The transition from cider to warmer and more potent stimulants was easy and natural; so that whole families died drunkards and vagabond paupers from the impetus first given by cider-swilling in their rural homes...

~ Horace Greeley ~

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