Show i ir r I HARKING BACK TO THE OLD DAYS S She mu must t b by now be much too old to take offense at this The lovely girl gil I 1 used to know but never never dared ar to kiss The pretty girl the witty girl who fascinated me The girl at every party that I marveled much to see see Sometimes s her ner e eyes es were azure blue sometimes a Lovely own brown The J g rl i whose home m Wf was alway alwarn at the ho other lother end awn 4 T 1 t n never wooed wooed a han handy girl or or- orone one who ho dwelt dwelt rby noa-rby Some fellows drew th the girl next door but no such luck had I. I mine to walk alone at night seven ven dreary miles mile and long And hear In In c bleak the hot hott t owls owl's dismal song S I do not begrudge grudge the tact fact I t merely set It down I always s 's drew the girl who lived at the other end of ot town tow New ow times have changed And motor cars rob distance distance distance dis dis- dis- dis tance of their fright I And youth can n tak take taie his sweetheart home and not waste all the night But In the days ays when we were young who paused to say f farewell rewell Would h hear ar unto his sad sad- dismay the last Tast cars car's warning bell betl Oh many a cold and cheerless mile Ive I've trudged at break of ot day The weary escort of ot the girl who U lived ed so far tar away I Sometimes Some a hostess to oblige sometimes from t fancy's ncy's whim Id I'd d ask to se see young ladles ladies home the fat ones arid and the slim sUm Though there were forty In the throng no maiden malden fair I J drew Whose parents lived U In houses In tb the neighborhoods I knew I say ty y It with a smile today though then I used to frown S Fate always handed me rae the girl from the other end of town Cop Copyright 1826 1926 Edga Edgar A. A Gu Guest st aL p f |