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was nevver lonely thare neether.‘ Dere was allwaze sumboddy or odder
droppin in.ter sea about sumthin’. It was a gud place ter studdy jags,
’an the diffrent waze dey affex peeple. Wesaw men.thare wid fitin’ jags,
weepin’ jags, larffn’ jags, mellenkoly jags, an’ quiet “stills.”. That’s:
ene the funnyest kind ov a jag to everyboddy but the
‘“‘jagee.”’ Den dere was sum wid singin’ jags
an’ most were singin’ ‘After de Bawl.” I re-
member de korus was
After de ball is over,
Wen you have drunk enuff,
Just as you feelin klover ~
Then cums the head so tiff, ,
The worst hed you ever felt, sir,
But you won’t have it at awl,
By taking a Bromo-Seltzer
After the Bawl.”
Bill an’ me awlwaze uster kall at the beer-
. _- tunnel last thing at nite. We wos so stuck on
the beer thare that we cud’nt keep away, but mebbe we didn’t have time
ter regret it nex’ mornin’! Yew never saw sich heds in awl yure born
daze. They was like two fresh punkins but they uster feel liké mush. I
don’t no wether yew ever got a hed ov that kind, but if yew did yew no

 

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