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The sober man who hurts a drunkard, shall be cut off from wine for ever: if he kill a drunkard, he shall die by thirst. To walk from supper in a right line shall be criminal. He who adds water to wine shall be degraded to the table of the dogs. Yvronia having been described in seven chapters, the traveller in this Other-and-Same World passes on to Viraginia, the land of the Viragoes.
Let him be my heir who can, my subject who will, my enemy who dares. Farewell and Fatten." After a description of the Island of Hunger, the traveller passes from Pamphagonia to Yvronia, the other province of Crapulia. These are among the laws of Yvronia: A cup must be either full or empty. Whoever takes or returns a cup half empty shall be guilty of lèse societé.
King: Crapulia, named from Crapula, is the Land of Inebriate Excess, and its two provinces, Pamphagonia and Yvronia, mean by their names the provinces of Omnivorous Gluttony and Drunkenness. Dr. King has translated six chapters, and begun the seventh, which is upon the wars of the Pamphagonians, to which they march forth armed with spits and two-pronged forks and heavy ribs of beef.
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