John's wife was always after him to stop drinking. This time,
she waved a newspaper in his face and said, "Here is another
powerful temperance moral.
'Young Wilson got into a boat and shoved out into the river, and as
he was intoxicated, he upset the boat, fell into the river and was
drowned.' See, that's the way it is, if he had not drunk whisky he
would not have lost his life."
"Let me see," said the John. "He fell into the river, didn't
he?"
"That's right," his wife said.
"He didn't die until he fell in, is that right? " he asked.
"That's true," his wife said.
"THEN IT WAS THE WATER THAT KILLED HIM," said John, "NOT
WHISKY."
