The Story
London, 1739. Gin has become such a menace to society, it has been outlawed. Seeing an opportunity, Captain Dudley Bradstreet devises a cunning plan and devises a scheme to sell gin in secret. Hanging a black cat over his window and lets it be known that a knock, whispered word and placement of money in the cat’s mouth would result in a bountiful measure of gin.
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