Everybody got drunk,” I once heard him say, referring to the beginning of the Texas revolution, as he gave a side-splitting picture of that bloody episode, “and I realized that somebody must get sober and keep sober.
Watterson recounts a humorous anecdote about a man's realization during the Texas revolution.
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