Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . kas pitch for half an closed sos the kidscould run home before dark,and folks hadta light thegas at Stevenson and Car-nahans. Whistlers, Schom-berg and Evanss, and at allthe other big, hustlin was all nervoused upand stood mopin aroundand takin their peekins atthe eclipse through smoked glasses, wonderin what was gointo happen, and, if some live kidder had blasted a loud snortthrough a trombone, folks would of thought that old Gabrielwas primin his trumpet for the blowoff solo. They certainlywas keyed up t
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . kas pitch for half an closed sos the kidscould run home before dark,and folks hadta light thegas at Stevenson and Car-nahans. Whistlers, Schom-berg and Evanss, and at allthe other big, hustlin was all nervoused upand stood mopin aroundand takin their peekins atthe eclipse through smoked glasses, wonderin what was gointo happen, and, if some live kidder had blasted a loud snortthrough a trombone, folks would of thought that old Gabrielwas primin his trumpet for the blowoff solo. They certainlywas keyed up to a high pitch of excitement. The chickens clucked and the geese quacked, and thenwent to roost like on regular evenins, and just about thetime that snoozin was gettin snooky the rooster crowedall hands on deck, and that poultry outfit thought sure thatthings was gettin twisted. Nancy, the old roan hoss of little Billy McFarland, theexpressman, was the most surprised nag in town, Billy get-tin balled up in his dates and givin old Nance an extrafeed of 67 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS Matthias Frahm, Bernhard Eseke, Dick Shebler, HenryKorn, and Fritz Paulsen was argufyin about the barley mar-ket and the price of hops at Fifth and Harrison, when OldSol went off watch, and when they broke for cover, upto the summerhouse, old Ed had the big brass lamp lit,and them boys took a dutch treat, and switched their gabfrom food to astronomy. Connie OBrien came steamin in with a way freightfrom Brooklyn, with Pat Riley shovelin black diamondsinto old engine seventy-two. Jimmy OMeara was the frontbrakesy and Barney Costello was the con that perched in thelittle red caboose when Connie whistled down brakes andstopped the train at Harrison street, alongside Dow, Gil-man, and Hancocks elevator, sos the Riley boy could touchup the kerosene 1,1^^ i^ ^he ingine headlight. All them laddybucks on that train crew was fromold County Kilkenny, exceptin Zee McMahon, the secondbrakesy, he bein from D
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