Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . twosojers made location on that hennery, penetrated the firstline defenses of the Rhode Island reds, and they were justgrabbin some plump three-pound pullets when a shotgunexploded from the direction of the farmhouse, and a buck-shot barrage splattered all over that coonfruit cafeteria. Private Joe had practiced startin with the pistol shot,and won first dash outa that hencoop, but before he coveredtwenty yards a pair of broomsticks in sojers uniformstreaked past him, and when Private Joe finished the milerun to camp he found Privat
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . twosojers made location on that hennery, penetrated the firstline defenses of the Rhode Island reds, and they were justgrabbin some plump three-pound pullets when a shotgunexploded from the direction of the farmhouse, and a buck-shot barrage splattered all over that coonfruit cafeteria. Private Joe had practiced startin with the pistol shot,and won first dash outa that hencoop, but before he coveredtwenty yards a pair of broomsticks in sojers uniformstreaked past him, and when Private Joe finished the milerun to camp he found Private George snorin soundly inhis tent, grippin a bunch of rooster tailfeathers in his hand. At court-martial next mornin it was brought out thatPrivate George bolted the henhouse at nine-fifteen andreached camp at nine-ten, beatin Father Time for the recordby five minutes. At the banquet that evenin the officersof the First Regiment, I, N. G., enjoyed spuds, greens, beans,and oratory, with Beatties XXX flour as a side dish. Oh, boy! Them was the good old days!. Hoglatin, Gibberish, Slanguage. In them times, sport, youngsters was right pert whentalkin hoglatin, sos folks couldnt get next to their darksecrets. Instead of a kid askin his buddy, Will you comewith me? hed say Wigery yougery cogery wigery me-gery? in hoglatin—givin each word a soft final and addinthe sound of gery for a bit of mysterious bolshevik passin fifth grade a kid could master gibberish—shiftin the first letter of a word to the end of the wordand addin the sound ay to the letter, as, lUway ouyayomecay ithway emay? With them two foreign languagesschoolboys could prattle in secret right in front of theirdads. Nowdays flappers and shifters gabble a new lingo,called slanguage, that gives our good old United States lady-food some awful scramblin. Imagine, sport, an old-timerdroppin into a picher show to read movie ads and rest hisdogs, and gettin planted alongside a coupla world-wearylittle old wimme
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