A Humorous Tour Through Temperance Tales and Courtroom Quips
A long, fragmented reminiscence recounts Jim O’Wight, a Kentucky Temperance leader once from Virginia, his grandiose pretensions and open house hospitality, a misstep with a sentinel’s pass, verse about a shell-bark lawyer, and a string of humorous anecdotes from courts, inns, and political jibes.
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