Vino Vignette

"I WAS ALWAYS trading the devil for the witch," Jimmy explained at the small midtown closed meeting he liked so well. "I found I couldn't drink the hard stuff so I decided the fault was in the beverage. I switched to Scotch. When that got me into trouble, I switched to wine, finally to beer. All of a sudden I realized that it was the alcohol not the mixture that was causing all the trouble."