What according to the author can bring cheer on a rainy day?

Alcohol can bring cheer on a rainy day. 

After supper, you find your tobacco is damp, and you cannot smoke. Luckily you have a bottle of the stuff that cheers and inebriates, if taken in proper quantity, and this restores to you sufficient interest in life to induce you to go to bed.

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