Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . ^ 32. Chawbeef Days at Duck Creek. AY, BOB—Even if kids didnt have sandybeaches and enclosed nats in the old days,they had some dandy swimmin places—not countin the Arp and Reuber swimminhouse at the foot of Perry, where a kid couldtake a swim in the little hole for a nickelor in the big hole for a dime. On Satur-days, though, there was such a mob waitin*in line that old Reuberd only let em stay ina half hour^ when hed chase em out with abamboo pole. Boys didnt wear swimminsuits then, and a kid that brung soap and towel got razzed f
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . ^ 32. Chawbeef Days at Duck Creek. AY, BOB—Even if kids didnt have sandybeaches and enclosed nats in the old days,they had some dandy swimmin places—not countin the Arp and Reuber swimminhouse at the foot of Perry, where a kid couldtake a swim in the little hole for a nickelor in the big hole for a dime. On Satur-days, though, there was such a mob waitin*in line that old Reuberd only let em stay ina half hour^ when hed chase em out with abamboo pole. Boys didnt wear swimminsuits then, and a kid that brung soap and towel got razzed forbein a dude. Rookss brickyard pond, in the ravine at Tenth and Gaines,was a dandy swimmin hole, exceptin it had a mushy yallerclay bottom and gangrene scum around the edges. Folkssaid it wasnt healthy to swim there, but the kids didntbelieve em. The irish canaries that boarded in Rookss pondhad fine baritone voices, and on moonlight nights you couldhear em chantin in mournful chorus down to Schuetzen swimmin hole under the oak trees in Farnam stree
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