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Show All of a Kind There was me and pap, and some more of the crowd, Was sittin' around in Jimmer- son's store, When Bill Hawkins told a tale he Mowed Would set the fellers all in a roar. Says he: 'When I was liv.n' in the West, Along on the edge of Ioway, I knowed a feller there that made A hundred dollars in half a day A regular old Missouri flood "The old Missoo' got on a raise An' this feller thinks he sees a chance In catehin' floatin' fire wood. "So he advertised for 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 ketch that wood, An' all that mornin' the wood they ketched." An' the pay he give's where the joke come in He gives 'em half of what they fetched." An' the fellers laughed at old Bill's yarn, Laughed and said they thought it grand Yet all of them fellers that cackled cack-led so Was workin' on shares on rented land! -Indianapolis Journal. |