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Excerpt from The Romance of the Woods
Jemmie tells me that before the peat - people built this line it had been necessary to bump along to Erin ofka as best one could, over the most awful roads that human bones ever creaked upon, a distance of forty or fifty miles; but that now, if only you Can secure the sober, the comparatively sober driver, the journey is a sweet boon. It appears that there are three drivers on this line - Matvey, who is always very drunk indeed Ivan, who is always rather drunk and some times highly intoxicated; and Yegor, who has been. Known to be sober. I have not seen the man who saw Yegor sober; but it is confidently asserted that he has been observed in this unusual condition, and that he is rarely more than half drunk.
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