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"Reminiscences"
THE "NEAVS" OFFICE ON A RAINA' DAA"
"Shove that book over, F^ddie, so I can init my other foot on the
table."
"Save me that match, Baehr. Oh, who do you think I saw the
other day?"
"I don't know, whisper?"
'Aw, haAV, haw! 1 remember her. Say, she was a good-looking
girl, now, Eddie. Old flame of mine!"
"Yeh, I know. Remember how long it took you to approach her,
Cubbj\ She's engaged? He was a good scout. We used to throAV
rocks at him."
"Haw, haw! What's happened to that ? Remember
Avhen he and I had the prize fight! Man, 1 nearly killed him."
"He was with us the night we put tick-tacks on the windoAvs."
" Yeh, he's a movie operator now. He owed me seven
'Inimies'; we tied him in a sack and ]nit him on the Dago's porch.
Couldn't he fight, tlio?"
"What was that stutt" we used to mix up in a bottle that smelt
something awful? I put some in the jiarlor once, "
"Remember how we called u]) the temperance people and asked
if that A\'as Moerlein's Brewery?"
"Yeh, saj', I never saw a town that was so full of felloAvs, That
old poolroom was a SA\'ell ]5lace to bum. Remember how we
smoked cubebs back in the A'ard?"
"Haw, haw! Remember the girl I used to go to see, and her
mother chased me home at half-jiast nine. She Avas a pretty girl,
all but her teeth."
"Oh, we used to hook 'creme d' mint' out of her dad's place.
Didn't we think we were devils? Saj', remember how we used to
go over to and swipe grandma's vicliy water? You could do
anything in fliaf house. Play hoji-scotch on Ihe carpet "
"Remember when we used fo go out to the Miami right opposite
Shademore; that was a peach of a hole—nice, sandy, and a good
high board!"
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