Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS noise chariot was passin the steeple hetore loose with This House is Haunted,and Fatty came right back with the BlueBells of Scotland, takin an awful whamat the high note on the bell tuned in qflat. That punch of Fattys had so muchzip on it that Soapy smelled scotch, andwhen he was passin Pat Tuohys joint hejumped off the calleyope and ast Pat tomix him a stiff snorter of scotch, sayinthat the bum note that Fatty pulled on the bells gave himthe willies. Pat thought Soapy was easily nervoused, and asthim ho
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS noise chariot was passin the steeple hetore loose with This House is Haunted,and Fatty came right back with the BlueBells of Scotland, takin an awful whamat the high note on the bell tuned in qflat. That punch of Fattys had so muchzip on it that Soapy smelled scotch, andwhen he was passin Pat Tuohys joint hejumped off the calleyope and ast Pat tomix him a stiff snorter of scotch, sayinthat the bum note that Fatty pulled on the bells gave himthe willies. Pat thought Soapy was easily nervoused, and asthim how hed like to hear that note every day and twiceon Sundays. Soapy said no guy hadta stand for that pun-ishment when he had such a beautiful chance to jump off thebridge. Then Soapy remarked that, as far as he was con-cerned, Fatty won the battle—that hed never fight anotherduel with chimes that was tuned by a clam-digger. When the scotch bagpipers came to town in fair-time,dressed in kilts, you could tell by their knees they never tookwater for a chaser.
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