Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . ve to shootthe bricks. Then Mister Haverly said that while the offer didntgo for encores, he was satisfied that life wasnt worth muchto a nervy youngster when there was a good minstrel showin town. Lotsa young fellers that hung around the Burtis in theold days, sport, kept their wits workin, and made good onbig time latere—boys like Bee ODay, Jimmy Doyle, Bob andHughie Conwell, Roger Imhoff, Hal Skelly, and others. But there was one small chap nobody could understand—little Billy Johnston. When hardly big enough to toddle,he was hob
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . ve to shootthe bricks. Then Mister Haverly said that while the offer didntgo for encores, he was satisfied that life wasnt worth muchto a nervy youngster when there was a good minstrel showin town. Lotsa young fellers that hung around the Burtis in theold days, sport, kept their wits workin, and made good onbig time latere—boys like Bee ODay, Jimmy Doyle, Bob andHughie Conwell, Roger Imhoff, Hal Skelly, and others. But there was one small chap nobody could understand—little Billy Johnston. When hardly big enough to toddle,he was hobnobbin* with actors and chummin with BillyMessenger, a cullud boy. If a circus came to town, youngJohnston was the first lad on the lot and the last to studied every street faker and marched with every kinda music sounded good to that youngster. One evenin, when Murray and Mack played the Burtis,little Billy said to Charlie Murray, Some day youll see myname on Broadway. Charlie laughed at the kid, and ast 181 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS. Bert Leslie.
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