Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 45 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS. Original Hotel Davenport. Famous hostlery of old days, when Davenport was a popular summer resort for southern aristocrats. 46 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS Never heard about the Land League debatin club bat-tles, Bob, and how the Corkhill jakes and Slough jakesused to flock to em? Well, a little wisin-up wont hurt you. Some of the hottest battles ever fought to free old Ire-land was pulled off by the debatin club in them days. The fighters was trained to the minute and kept rightin the pink up to the tap
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 45 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS. Original Hotel Davenport. Famous hostlery of old days, when Davenport was a popular summer resort for southern aristocrats. 46 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS Never heard about the Land League debatin club bat-tles, Bob, and how the Corkhill jakes and Slough jakesused to flock to em? Well, a little wisin-up wont hurt you. Some of the hottest battles ever fought to free old Ire-land was pulled off by the debatin club in them days. The fighters was trained to the minute and kept rightin the pink up to the tap of the gong, the same as these ladsthat puts on the scraps at the Legion hall now. Only thestyle of fightin and the rules was different. They wasnt no clinchin and no stallin, but they wasplenty of jabbin and footwork and windjammin. The fightersfought one at a time, and they used eight-pound wordsinstead of eight-ounce gloves. They uppercut with short-arm swings, and blocked with dirty looks, and tried to putacross the haymaker with wild swingin and cruel adjectives. In them days the f
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