Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . he Patch, and how the old clown sung PullinHard Against the Stream? In this world Ive gained my knowledge. And for it Ive had to pay,Though I never went to college, Still Ive heard the poet say: , Life is like a mighty river, , Runnin on from day to day,Men are vessels cast upon it, Sometimes wrecked and cast away. Then do your best for one another, Makin* life a pleasant dream,Help a v\rorn and w^eary brother Pullin hard against the stream. Say, boy—that was some singin! Nor you haint got no recollection of Hons McGee andCal Gilloo
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . he Patch, and how the old clown sung PullinHard Against the Stream? In this world Ive gained my knowledge. And for it Ive had to pay,Though I never went to college, Still Ive heard the poet say: , Life is like a mighty river, , Runnin on from day to day,Men are vessels cast upon it, Sometimes wrecked and cast away. Then do your best for one another, Makin* life a pleasant dream,Help a v\rorn and w^eary brother Pullin hard against the stream. Say, boy—that was some singin! Nor you haint got no recollection of Hons McGee andCal Gillooley when they was drivin the cows to pasture toFarnam street woods in the mornins and bringin em backfor milkin in the evenins, and how Hons was always whist-lin for his dog Shep. Never heard of good old Brahaney, and how the kidsusta tease him and holler, Brahaney, will yer dog bite?just to get him to chase em? Its a ten-to-one bet you never heard about John Driscollblowin the depot whistle at the old roundhouse at Fifth and 43 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS. Farnam, and that you didnt never know that railroad timewas fifteen minutes earUer than city time in them days. Dont know about them times, huh?Well, youre a fine bird for Corkhillreporter! About all that you newspaper guysdoes nowdays is put on the feedbag,hustle for hooch, and shake the jazz legwith them bobhair janes. Why, in the old days, when a littlecutie bobbed her hair and came sailindown the line, the kids usta holler,Chippie, get yer hair cut—fifteen cents!Little gals was so bashful then that theyusta blush, and a vamp was called a tramp. In them times, old George Ballou did all the reportinand editin on that sheet of yourn, and John Hassen and TomWoods did the printin—no matter how near pickled theywas. Now whos doing all the shootin at the payroll? And George didnt run no pichers of society razberries,efficiency experts, bootleggers, oil-stock easers, and guys thatworks in banks, like that! Th
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