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me so much corn likker.' He comes to my house that very afternoon with plenty of corn likker. That's what I did this morning. He brought all this wonderful corn likker. I'm going to get you a nice drink.”

Not knowing what the darn stuff was, and also being aware that I was a campaigner for somebody who was going to be President, thinking that it wouldn't be good to be disobeying the laws of your country, I was quite embarrassed in trying to respect my host's idea and yet not taking this. I finally said, “I don't think I better really. We've had a big day. I think I better not. After all, I have to make a speech tonight and I don't think I better take corn likker.”

He said, “Now, I tell you, corn likker's all right. You can't drink Scotch and you can't drink rye - they're bad - but corn likker's all right. Corn likker never hurt anybody. Corn likker's good for people. Corn likker you can drink all you want and you wake up sober.”

I've never forgotten that, because I said, “But what if I should go to sleep before I began my speech?” I finally had to get out of it on the ground that I had to make a speech and I was afraid I would go to sleep. I did get out of it.

We ate and they talked, and talked, and talked - gossip, gossip, gossip - gab, gab, gab. I never heard so