Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . kenstedt, Honts Moore, and Ed Hood, anylame bird was treated like a human, and he could toast hisshins up agin the old stove, and keep stickin around tilsome lonesome party, lookin for somebody to listen to histroubles, would blow in and ast him would he have somethinto take. Talk about bein sociable! It was always fair weatherat the Bucket of Blood, the Double Elbow, Zum Eck-stein, and the Blue Goose. There wasnt none of them sneakystickup guys moochin around in the darklookin to sap a live one for the price ofa hooch. None of this
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . kenstedt, Honts Moore, and Ed Hood, anylame bird was treated like a human, and he could toast hisshins up agin the old stove, and keep stickin around tilsome lonesome party, lookin for somebody to listen to histroubles, would blow in and ast him would he have somethinto take. Talk about bein sociable! It was always fair weatherat the Bucket of Blood, the Double Elbow, Zum Eck-stein, and the Blue Goose. There wasnt none of them sneakystickup guys moochin around in the darklookin to sap a live one for the price ofa hooch. None of this miserable gizzard-grindin moonshine was bein dished outin the homes neither. The wimmen folkswas playin the washboards and tendin totheir knittin, and not learnin to be dis-tillers. Say—if every dame in this burgthats operatin a home-hooch factory wassent up, theyd have to put sideboards on the big house outat Anamosa. That prattle about humans gettin good withthe blowoff of old John Barleycorn, was hoke for the didnt seem to get it, 155 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS
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