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Show The Tramp' Hat Dodge. "Yep," said fink Whiskers, the tramp, "I wisht had a many dollars as it is easy to git hats. You see, a gang uv us will hiy down in tho weeds alougsido uv the railroad a little way from the water tank. Jest as n passenger pas-senger train is about to start off, after the engine is through takin' water, we jump up un' holler, -Howdy, Kernel.' Then all the men in the cars stick their heads out uv the winders, and we grab their hats and slide. Uv course this is in the south. In the West we say 'Jedge,' an' in the East Tcrfesser.V Anywhere elso we sing out: "Howdy, Mr. Smith?" Kentucky State Journal. |