{"id":7948,"date":"2012-04-18T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:56:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:56:14","slug":"the-logical-vegetarian-a-few-words-for-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2012\/04\/the-logical-vegetarian-a-few-words-for-wednesday.html","title":{"rendered":"The Logical Vegetarian (A Few Words for Wednesday)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The Logical Vegetarian<\/em> by\u00a0G. K. Chesterton. This was published in Wine, Water, and Song<\/a><\/em> just last week (er, 1915)\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy shouldn\u2019t I have a purely vegetarian drink? Why shouldn\u2019t I take vegetables in their highest form, so to speak? The modest vegetarians ought obviously to stick to wine or beer, plain vegetarian drinks, instead of filling their goblets with the blood of bulls and elephants, as all conventional meat-eaters do, I suppose.\u201d<\/em> \u2014 DALROY.<\/p>\n

You will find me drinking rum,
\nLike a sailor in a slum,
\nYou will find me drinking beer like a Bavarian.
\nYou will find me drinking gin
\nIn the lowest kind of inn,
\nBecause I am a rigid Vegetarian.<\/p>\n

So I cleared the inn of wine,
\nAnd I tried to climb the sign,
\nAnd I tried to hail the constable as \u201cMarion.\u201d
\nBut he said I couldn\u2019t speak,
\nAnd he bowled me to the Beak
\nBecause I was a Happy Vegetarian.<\/p>\n

Oh, I knew a Doctor Gluck,
\nAnd his nose it had a hook,
\nAnd his attitudes were anything but Aryan;
\nSo I gave him all the pork
\nThat I had, upon a fork;
\nBecause I am myself a Vegetarian.<\/p>\n

I am silent in the Club,
\nI am silent in the pub,
\nI am silent on a bally peak in Darien;
\nFor I stuff away for life
\nShoving peas in with a knife,
\nBecause I am at heart a Vegetarian.<\/p>\n

No more the milk of cows
\nShall pollute my private house
\nThan the milk of the wild mares of the Barbarian;
\nI will stick to port and sherry,
\nFor they are so very, very
\nSo very, very, very Vegetarian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, it\u2019s not happy hour yet.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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