Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 226 Curbstone Mebbe you young fellers nowdaysthink youre havin lotsa fun, sport, butit aint in it compared with the olddays, when the boys played All-in,Tick-tack, Bar-bar-ee, I-spy, andother games. The old gangs neverthought of goin to dancin-school tolearn dancin, as they took lessons onstreet corners and stepped to the musicof the mouthorgan or jewsharp. The Brady street gang held danc-in-school sessions at the corner ofFourth, alongside the salt barrels at Hurtos grocery V/allace and his mouthorgan be
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 226 Curbstone Mebbe you young fellers nowdaysthink youre havin lotsa fun, sport, butit aint in it compared with the olddays, when the boys played All-in,Tick-tack, Bar-bar-ee, I-spy, andother games. The old gangs neverthought of goin to dancin-school tolearn dancin, as they took lessons onstreet corners and stepped to the musicof the mouthorgan or jewsharp. The Brady street gang held danc-in-school sessions at the corner ofFourth, alongside the salt barrels at Hurtos grocery V/allace and his mouthorgan bein the them youngsters got sos they could waltz, schottische,and polka, and go through quadrilles without a skip, theytried out their work at the Mayday dance and childrens ballat Turner hall, on the Monday after bird-shootin day atSchuetzen. The Goosehollow gang usta take dancin lessons at thecorner of Eighth and Harrison, near Noths brewery, and somemighty fine dancers graduated from Goosehollow dancinschool. There was Dandy Devine, Pete Shaughnessy, JimDevlin, Benny
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