Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . ys vv^ascallin One more couple Vvanted!—asthey v/as tryin to fill two sets for acjuadrille. So when Fat stopped to chinwith Big Jim. McMahon about a job ofgradin they was doin, Byber Garveyat;t Fat would he do the callin for that dance, sos little MikeLamb could take his place v/ith the head couple and fill outthe set. Pat said sure thing, that callin was his middle name,and when he took his stand over near the orchestra he astthem dancers was they all full, and they hollered not yetbut soon—it bein close to election time. You kin t
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . ys vv^ascallin One more couple Vvanted!—asthey v/as tryin to fill two sets for acjuadrille. So when Fat stopped to chinwith Big Jim. McMahon about a job ofgradin they was doin, Byber Garveyat;t Fat would he do the callin for that dance, sos little MikeLamb could take his place v/ith the head couple and fill outthe set. Pat said sure thing, that callin was his middle name,and when he took his stand over near the orchestra he astthem dancers was they all full, and they hollered not yetbut soon—it bein close to election time. You kin tell em, sport, there v/as some fine steppin thatevenin, with Pat Walsh callin that quadrille and the orches-tra puttin in its nastiest licks playin The Devils Dream,My Love Nell, and The Leg of a Duck. Understand,them boys was well organized and had a system workin intheir dancin classes, sos they could tell guys from gals whendancin, the gals always havin a handkerchief tied on theirarms—provided they was enough handkerchiefs in the gangto go 229 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS The gals dancin in the quadrille that evenin were MiniiisMcGrath, Scoop Cottrell, Toad Keating, Nibs Collins, BumMcMahon, Chip Bryson, Doshen McGrath, Joe Steadley,Vonko Lynch, and Sheeney Powers, and all them birds hadhandkerchiefs tied to their arms exceptin Chip Bryson, whowas wearin his red flannin undershirt, havin been workinovertime at the foundry that evenin. The guys that dancedwere Heiney Sievers, Byber Garvey, Billy Lavery, Buer Mc-Grath, Jimmy OBrien, Tug Lynch, Jim Cooney, Zulo Haugh,and Dick Malone, and they sure done some fancy Tom and Little Tom Garvey acted as floor managers, tosee that everything moved right, and when they hollered Allset, Fat Walsh gave the high-sign to Dutch Klauer, and thencalled out, First four right and left! Pat sent them Sloughbeys through their paces at top speed on ail three changesof the quadrille, and then he done the callin for the Vir
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