A travelling businessman stops at the brand-new ‘Sickle and Sheaf’ in Cedarville, where the cheerful miller Simon Slade has become a tavern keeper. Returning on ten visits over ten years, he watches drink change the landlord, his family, the village drunkard Joe Morgan and his little daughter Mary, and finally the whole town.
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