id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
318	London, Jack	John Barleycorn			.txt	text/plain	66088	4422	85	life lives, and John Barleycorn gives them the lie." I was five years old the first time I got drunk. To this day I conquer it every time I take a drink. until, after long years, the time should come when I would look up John made men happy in spending good money for beer for a fellow like me who that I was a good fellow ashore with my money, buying drinks like a man. wharf and got ashore in the congregating places of men, where drink Drink as I would, I couldn't come to like John Barleycorn. Nelson had seen drink-crazed men, and thought I wanted to throw myself And I, the long time intimate of John Barleycorn, knew just what he I never took a drink until my day's work of writing I took another drink every time John Barleycorn reminded me of what	./cache/318.txt	./txt/318.txt