Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . heyd grab the days work them youngsterscarried on their shoulders—sorta takin offthe peak load. Them Rogertown guys w^asawful touchy and their feelins was easyhurt, cause if a kid got balky and showed fight theyd ganghim and give him a good maulin. Didnt do no good to goround a coupla miles and come home by Jersey Ridge road,neither, cause they had spotters out to ketch any outsidersthat stole their nuts—them birds controllin all the best nutorchards from East Davenport to the Wapsie. Thats whythey was so many squirrels up there—Rog
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . heyd grab the days work them youngsterscarried on their shoulders—sorta takin offthe peak load. Them Rogertown guys w^asawful touchy and their feelins was easyhurt, cause if a kid got balky and showed fight theyd ganghim and give him a good maulin. Didnt do no good to goround a coupla miles and come home by Jersey Ridge road,neither, cause they had spotters out to ketch any outsidersthat stole their nuts—them birds controllin all the best nutorchards from East Davenport to the Wapsie. Thats whythey was so many squirrels up there—Rogertown jakes livinon nuts all winter. But the only way they picked nuts wasby the sackful, when six of them brave fellers took a sackfulaway from one scared kid. It was an awful disgrace in them times for a young ladto get caught talkin to a little gal, exceptin his sister. Ifhe even spoke to his little gal cousin, hed have to put up anairtight alibi or get razzed for bein a sis. Theres lofs ofpunishment them little fellers could stand—but not 25 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS
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