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`` They are always bein ' teased to , and anyway I never knew tea to make anybody crazy drunk . '' `` The poor man , '' sez Elder Wessel in his most dictorial way , all of Arvilly 's talk havin ' slipped offen him like rain water offen a brass horn , `` the poor man , after he has worked hard all day , and has nothing to go home to but a room full of cryin ' children , discomfort , squalor and a complaining wife , is justified in my opinion to go to the only bright , happy place he knows of , the saloon . '' But I sez , bein ' such a case for justice , `` How is it with the wife who has worked hard all day in the home of discomfort and squalor , her work being rendered ten times harder and more nerve destroying than her husband 's by the care of the cryin ' children , how would it be for them , who are equally responsible for the marriage and the children , to take holt together and make the children happier and the home less full of discomfort ? '' `` Yes , '' sez Arvilly , `` is it goin ' to make the home less full of discomfort to have him reel home at midnight and dash the hungry cryin ' baby aginst the wall and put out its feeble life , and mebby kill the complainin ' wife too ? '' `` Oh , those are extreme cases and uncommon , '' sez Elder Wessel . `` Not oncommon at all , '' sez Arvilly . `` If you read the daily papers you will see such things as this , the direct work of the saloon , are continually occurring , too common in fact to attract much attention . ''