Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 177 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS ^^9 ? HlP^^^^l^^^^^^k^^^^^E ^^H ^^mHhHK ttM Hr^^^^^^^I ^^E^^^^^B ^H^k^^^m^^^^^^iH M m 1 Davenports First Human Fly, Jocko Kane,And his pals—Tho McNamara and Cal Gillooley. 178 The Human Fly at the Burtis. VEN if the guy that designed theBurtis opera house didnt know it,sport, he made easy pickins for thefirst human fly. On each side ofthe entrance, from the ground tothe roof, brickwork columns stoodout, with every seventh brick in-dented an inch, sos to make themcolumns look pretty. Leadin outfrom nigg

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Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 177 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS ^^9 ? HlP^^^^l^^^^^^k^^^^^E ^^H ^^mHhHK ttM Hr^^^^^^^I ^^E^^^^^B ^H^k^^^m^^^^^^iH M m 1 Davenports First Human Fly, Jocko Kane,And his pals—Tho McNamara and Cal Gillooley. 178 The Human Fly at the Burtis. VEN if the guy that designed theBurtis opera house didnt know it,sport, he made easy pickins for thefirst human fly. On each side ofthe entrance, from the ground tothe roof, brickwork columns stoodout, with every seventh brick in-dented an inch, sos to make themcolumns look pretty. Leadin outfrom nigger-heaven, up near thetop, a balcony extended over tothe fancy-step brickwork that balcony wasnt as highas the Kahl buildin, but it seemedhigher in them times. That stepbrickwork made fine toeholt, and,with the balcony, was ducksoup forlittle Jocko Kane, of Corkhill, theoriginal human fly, and the first kidto climb the Burtis bricks. One evenin, when Kate Clax-ton was playin The Double Mar-riage, little Jocko climbed up thebricks to the ba

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