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Show ALL OF A KIND. There was me and pap, and some more of the crowd, Was settin' around in Jimmerson's store, When Bill Hawkins told a tale he 'lowed Would set the men all in a roar. Says he: "When I was livin' in the West, Along on the edge of Ioway, I knowed a feller there that made A hundred dollars in half a day. "The old Missoo' got on a rise A regular old Missouri flood An' this feller thinks he sees a chance In catchin' floatin' firewood. i "So he advertised fer fifty men In the Roarin' City Weekly News To meet him on the river bank With skiffs an' boats, or with canoes. "An' he hired them fellers to catch that wood, An' all that mornin' the wood they fetched An' the pay he give's where the joke comes in He gives 'em half of what they ketched." An' the fellers laughed at old Billy's yarn, Laughed and said they thought it grand Yet all of them fellers that cackled so Was workin' on shares on rented land! Indianapolis Journal. |