Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 194. The Dope on Chief Black Hawk. You kin tell the world, sport, that Rock Island had theace of the old timers. Big Chief Black Hawk was the darbthat led em all, and these picher painters has got that injunboy wrong. Mebbe youve seen the oilpaintin that shows the Big Chief squattedin front of his wigwam, takin a solemn dragon his pipe, a bunch of squaws stirrin asoup kettle, and a stream of smoke oozinup in the air. And mebbe you got the ideathat the big red boy was goin to have dog-soup for supper. To make that picher lookromantic
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 194. The Dope on Chief Black Hawk. You kin tell the world, sport, that Rock Island had theace of the old timers. Big Chief Black Hawk was the darbthat led em all, and these picher painters has got that injunboy wrong. Mebbe youve seen the oilpaintin that shows the Big Chief squattedin front of his wigwam, takin a solemn dragon his pipe, a bunch of squaws stirrin asoup kettle, and a stream of smoke oozinup in the air. And mebbe you got the ideathat the big red boy was goin to have dog-soup for supper. To make that picher lookromantic, like the movies, the painter guysaid the Big Chief was broadcastin smokesignals to the braves around Coal Valley and Taylor Ridge,tellin em everything is jake on the Watch Tower, crops islookin fine, and give our regards to all the folks. Not so. Black Hawk wasnt brewin dog-soup, was operatin a heap big ten-gallon still, and workin upa batch of prime corn hooch that gaugedtwo-hundred and ten mule-proof, it beinfalltime and the corn was ripe and juicy.
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