“Well, I’d ben a-runnin’ a little temperance revival thar, ’bout a week, and was the pet of the women-folks, big and little, for I was makin’ it mighty warm for the rummies, I tell you, and takin’ as much as five or six dollar a night.”
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 19. We are introduced to the pretend Duke and King, a pair of fraudsters and scammers. This description of a con game by the pretend King contains an allusion to the temperance movement, a social and political campaign against the consumption of alcohol.