July, 1914

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THE OTHER night.

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I WAS standing.

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AT CARDWELL'S corner

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PEACEABLY TALKING.

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TO ROLLA Kribs.

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AND DOC Black drifted up.

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AND I thought:

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"FOR THE Love of Mike.

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"JUST SUPPOSE.

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''A COP should come.

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"AND FIND all these nuts together."

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AND JUST then.

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E. W. Collier came along.

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AND STOPPED.

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AND AFTER that.

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FARLEY JOINED the mob.

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AND DOC Thompson happened in.

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AND WE had all the nuts in town.

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IN ONE bunch.

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AND PRETTY soon.

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WHITTAKER HAPPENED by.

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AND WENT mad.

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AND AS he passed.

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I HEARD him rave:

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'YER TAIL light's out.

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'AND YOU'VE lost your license number.

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'YOU'VE STOPPED with your engine running.

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'ON THE wrong side of the street.

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'AND YOU'RE going.

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'MORE THAN four miles an hour.

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'YER PINCHED."

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AND HE stopped at Koenig's.

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AND WATCHED us.

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AND WALKED over by the Bank.

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AND WATCHED us.

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AND THEN across to Matthies' office.

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AND WATCHED us.

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AND WE still stayed.

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NOISILY.

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AND PRETTY quick.

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HE GOT a hunch.

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TO PRESERVE the reputation.

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OF HIS peaceful street.

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AND HE went up to the hall.

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AND RANG the kid bell.

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SO I had to go home.

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AND I'LL bet.

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THE REST of the nuts.

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ARE IN jail yet.


I THANK YOU.

R. McC.


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