Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 165 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS Ven somedime I see you not gome ar-r-roundt yet,Rosey replied, I vill schmile all the time alretty. Old Tom Smiley thought Roseys comeback so cleverthat he hawhawed and set em up to everybody, includin TomGlenn, the porter, and a moochin smoke from over in Goosehollow. Rosey was proud of his summer-garden with its saw-dust-covered floor, where he served lunch and celebratedbirthdays and holidays out under the colored gathered at these parties to listen to Roseys speeches,they bein g
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 165 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS Ven somedime I see you not gome ar-r-roundt yet,Rosey replied, I vill schmile all the time alretty. Old Tom Smiley thought Roseys comeback so cleverthat he hawhawed and set em up to everybody, includin TomGlenn, the porter, and a moochin smoke from over in Goosehollow. Rosey was proud of his summer-garden with its saw-dust-covered floor, where he served lunch and celebratedbirthdays and holidays out under the colored gathered at these parties to listen to Roseys speeches,they bein gems of pigeon-english, always sparklin andoriginal. Rosey would urge customers with big growlers,that they wanted filled for a nickel, to visit Si Hall, Ed Jen-ney, John Conklin, Emil Beyer, Pete Foley, Julius Goetsch,Mike Heeney, McManuss, Bartemeiers, Aschermanns, Pil-lions, Shaughnessys, or other places that made a specialty ofworkin for the 166 Hooking Suckers in Little Monte Carlo,
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