Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . the county poor-master, bein overdue in his coal dates. * Ah aint bothein ma haid bout who done got lected,chile. What Ah is bothed bout is when Mistah SmifT isgwine to delivah ma wintah coal. Go long now, Sammy,bout yo ol lectium, an don fool yo ol aunty. What Ahwants, stid of lectium, is mo cohnmeal, bacon, an tatehsfo de col wintah mohnins. But there were always a few kind white folks to lookafter the simple needs of old Aunt Lucy. Lemme tell you, sport—them was the good old days!Kids usta spit for good luck when theyd spot a red
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . the county poor-master, bein overdue in his coal dates. * Ah aint bothein ma haid bout who done got lected,chile. What Ah is bothed bout is when Mistah SmifT isgwine to delivah ma wintah coal. Go long now, Sammy,bout yo ol lectium, an don fool yo ol aunty. What Ahwants, stid of lectium, is mo cohnmeal, bacon, an tatehsfo de col wintah mohnins. But there were always a few kind white folks to lookafter the simple needs of old Aunt Lucy. Lemme tell you, sport—them was the good old days!Kids usta spit for good luck when theyd spot a red-headed gal, and then theyd look for the white boss beforemakin a wish. Nowdays they need to be some spitterswith all these henna-headed babies floatin around. And,bein as they aint no more white bosses, theyre outa luckunless they wish sumpin on a yaller cab or ford coop. Barney Reddy played Molly Darlin, Down in a CoalMine, and Sweet Evalina on the wheezy hand-organ forthe boss-power merry-go-round at the old Fair grounds. 74 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS. where you now got Vander Veer park. The lucky hick thatgrabbed the brass ring from the ringrack, while buzzinaround, was entitled to another spin free. Jakey Heinsfurter was learnin to waltz and two-stepwith the good-lookin young gals at the Thalia maskenball and the Sawmill boys social. Jakeynever did learn, his dogs beinchurch-broke, but he had more darnfun practicin down there and at theFriedegg and the Dirty Dozensocial. He danced mostly with hisarms and shoulders, but his hoofswouldnt register. Jakey was jaketo this nineteen twenty-two dancinstuff, but the folks didnt know a little gal had to have hercorns pared after a friendly dancinbout around the hall with gals was homely they knowed it, and learned tobe wallflowers, sos they could hold a man when they hookedhim. Nowdays they open beauty parlors and shoot thecon and other chemicals into pinhead broads—tellin em theirdresses is too long, givin em
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