Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . chronicheadaches does, his friends kin only hope for a hurry callfrom the croaker guy. In them days cigar stores smelled of finecut and figleafeatin tobacco, or Havana smokes and scraps. Now a guygets cracked on the beezer with a knockout punch of beansoup or Spanish stew when he slips in to buy the makins. Wonderful was a descent, respectable word in the olddays, and nobody was pickin on it. Now every pinheadand his sister abuses poor old wonderful. Soup is is movies and mush, feet and fudge, gassers and gushers,bobbed
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . chronicheadaches does, his friends kin only hope for a hurry callfrom the croaker guy. In them days cigar stores smelled of finecut and figleafeatin tobacco, or Havana smokes and scraps. Now a guygets cracked on the beezer with a knockout punch of beansoup or Spanish stew when he slips in to buy the makins. Wonderful was a descent, respectable word in the olddays, and nobody was pickin on it. Now every pinheadand his sister abuses poor old wonderful. Soup is is movies and mush, feet and fudge, gassers and gushers,bobbed hair and perfumery, and chow dished out at weineyroasts. But in slang theys been some improvement. In theold days when a young smarty began feedin the old lineto a likely trim, shed say, Ah, cheese it, cully—youre givinme taffy! When a bright boy with belted overcoat, tanshoes, and greased hair aims his best line at a peppy littleflapper now, she hops to it with a cold fishy eye, and tellshim to Park that bull! Yes, indeed, sport—things keep 119
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