AS DRUNK AS DAVID’S SOW.

 
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AS DRUNK AS DAVID’S SOW 1 A common saying, which took its rise from the following cir- cumstance : David Lloyd, a Welshman, who kept an alehouse at Hereford, had a living sow with six legs, which was greatly resorted to by the curious [...]

A WASTED LIFE BY MELINDA KENDALL

A WASTED LIFE A wasted life! This sad refrain Comes surging through my ears again; There’s no escape from thee, though fiend; Thou art borne to me on every wind – A wasted life! A wasted life! By day or night, no peace for me; Still, still before me I can see The fragments of [...]

MY FAIR LADY

Police Report.
Mary Cooper, a disciple of Xantippe, made her appearance, charged with diunken, riotous, and disorderly behaviour. Having imbibed sundry potations of that destroyer of good order, rum, she must needs display her prowess, by going to the house of a peaceful neighbour, and, without the least provocation, challenging her to fight. The latter [...]

DRINKING IN THE COLONY WITH HANNAH MOSS AND FRIENDS

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2185467
The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 18 March 1826, page 3.
Hannah Moss, free, whose squalid and repulsive appearance might have set her above the imputation of being of that loose description of character, which she afterwards was proved to be, was sentenced as a notorious prostitute to the muse of correction, (the Factory; for [...]

21 YEARS FROM NOW

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings. 
Ellen Burstyn