Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 131 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS. 132 The Old Turner Hall Crowd. In the good old days, sport, old timers from over theRhine would gather at the old Turner hall in the afternoonsto greet young John Hill with a genial Goondacht!—ordera cold stein of brew and a Modoc cigar, and qualify in agabfest while waitin for the four oclock lunch to be they got through moppin up that lunch the tableslooked like theyd been visited by the Kansas grasshoppers,and there wasnt enough food left to feed a canary. After supper theyd come dropp
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 131 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS. 132 The Old Turner Hall Crowd. In the good old days, sport, old timers from over theRhine would gather at the old Turner hall in the afternoonsto greet young John Hill with a genial Goondacht!—ordera cold stein of brew and a Modoc cigar, and qualify in agabfest while waitin for the four oclock lunch to be they got through moppin up that lunch the tableslooked like theyd been visited by the Kansas grasshoppers,and there wasnt enough food left to feed a canary. After supper theyd come droppin in, one at a time, toplay pinochle, skat, or sancho-pedro, keepin tab on the gamewith a piece of chalk, on a cloth-bound slate that had asponge tied to it with a red string, and they talked mightyloud considerin the amount of money they was spendin forthe good time they was havin. If them free lunch tables at old Turner hall could talk,sport, theyd have sootne awful funny stories to tell. Proba-bly youve read in story books about big banquets wherethe tables groaned with choice viand
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