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CUTTING IT OUT




_In Press_


_By the Same Author_

THE FUN OF GETTING THIN




CUTTING IT OUT

HOW TO GET ON THE WATERWAGON
AND STAY THERE


BY
SAMUEL G. BLYTHE


[Illustration: (publisher's symbol)]

CHICAGO
FORBES & COMPANY
1912




COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY
THE CURTIS PUBLISHING CO.

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY
FORBES AND COMPANY




CONTENTS


CHAPTER                PAGE

  I. Why I Quit          9

 II. How I Quit         21

III. What I Quit        31

 IV. When I Quit        45

  V. After I Quit       57




PUBLISHER'S NOTE


This work originally appeared in _The Saturday Evening Post_ under the
title "On the Water-Wagon."




CUTTING IT OUT




CHAPTER I

WHY I QUIT


First off, let me state the object of the meeting: This is to be a
record of sundry experiences centering round a stern resolve to get on
the waterwagon and a sterner attempt to stay there. It is an entirely
personal narrative of a strictly personal set of circumstances. It is
not a temperance lecture, or a temperance tract, or a chunk of advice,
or a shuddering recital of the woes of a horrible example, or a
warning, or an admonition--or anything at all but a plain tale of an
adventure that started out rather vaguely and wound up rather