Alcoholic beverage containing more than 20 percent alcohol.
1Not yet was I ready to tuck my arm in John Barleycorn's.
2Another result was that John Barleycorn was beginning to trip me up.
3So it is with John Barleycorn's realm where the White Logic reigns.
4But, John Barleycorn, to the extent of six glasses, went with me.
5It was a new, a totally different manifestation of John Barleycorn's power.
6And here again we come to another side of many-sided John Barleycorn.
7At every turn in the world in which I lived, John Barleycorn beckoned.
8John Barleycorn changed the tune he played in my drink-maddened brain.
9And the way of the water led inevitably to John Barleycorn.
10I had been in too-familiar contact with John Barleycorn through too many years.
11They were eloquent proselyters for John Barleycorn in their own small insidious way.
12John Barleycorn will not let the dreamer dream, the liver live.
13And thus it was I learned another trait of John Barleycorn.
14But it must not be forgotten that John Barleycorn is protean.
15John Barleycorn makes his appeal to weakness and failure, to weariness and exhaustion.
16I was very proud, and John Barleycorn was proud with me.
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