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Show IZ- '-7 1 The 137atei System;:, V . ,. v,.i : - , -:, i',r ' T"" Y.hon this hero old town" "ofyliurn's ngoln' to. ..tho dog.. It's D fiorco' the Way she's flllln' UP wlt1' Profs and . pedagogs all shootln' off tholr gol durnod 'J' a tollln' crazy lies about what awful harm' they Is in skcotera dirt, an flies. Why Jlst today I soon a guy down thore by Thatch er' bank what said tho city -water was so rotten that It stank. Huh! -rotten 1 1 why consarn his hldo I butted In right there; says I. 01d windbag, shet yor trap and don't you never daro to say such tilings about this burg whllo I am standln nigh, or by tho Ju'mpin' Jlmlny I'll poke you in tho eye! Rotten? why durn your ugiy- rougl I'vo drunk that water now nigh onto sixty year and I ain't dead yet, you'll allow. I ain't bin sick, 'cept rheumatlz "nd typhoid and the grip an asthma and tho glanders senco the time I broke my hip Jlst after Sarle's first boy died, way back in "93 guess that's enough to show ye city water ain't hurt me. Then 'listen? what that fresh guy done; ho took me by the arm and says says, ho: Now looky hero, they's no uso glttln' warm. The guys what's tied thoy can't come back to tell us why thoy croaked and them what ain't dead's J 1st like you they'ro all bo doggoned soak.ed' la' fool idees and stubbornness an Ignorance and such It alnt'no use" to 'Waste ycr breath atalktn' to 'em much, but when they're deadand burled deep (and nobody ain't missed 'cm) then this here lown's agoln' to have a decent water system. , JIM CHANCE. .Jj |