Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-07-05
FOURTH RECALLS
THE DAYS OF OLD
(By John T. Waldorf

Nowadays Fourth Of July follow heels
Of another different in the old days Somehow Fourth
sare Perhaps began to look for it Little early but nearly
always middle Of May before
we began the days At any "Od Doc stretched the
truth when he said Them Arctic Circle elers haven't the best
OF We split year days, and have heap
noise, Christmas and the others Fourth of July
The period Of anticipation always tried patience ore but
the encss OF getting spending money took some OF the
edge off the duness 1t poor day when we failed to gather
something the way junk accumulated bits wrought
IRON lead copper brass and glass We saved
rags they
keep from stripping the house clothing. Rags
quoted half pound the OF the long
always found looking upon everything the cloth line rags
boy whose escaped little short of the
twenty pounds that the demanded before he parted with
and he made the difference by npping his mothers
wedding dress She it. and he couldn't what
anyway big strong There wasn't going
any stepaher would die old maid
rather than secondhand wedding dress,
This brings up picture of Robinson the junknan He
had curly hair and sharp and he carried
many dimes and quarters and halves dirty leather sack May
tall he certainly looked big He had
piled high Junk gave rating
only of Mackay Fair In the OF arithmetic he
genius except which smelt of
whisky With Robinson there only perfumes in the
world whisky The latter nterfered with his
driving bargains The generally got him sadly
mixed but when he paid than due the boys who
quig Fourth OF July patriotic remind him OF his
Robinson phanthropst and he prided himself
his business ability Perhaps the boys didn't to hurt his
feelings.
Giving where due behalf of the kids OF the
of gratitude Robinson He had the
only junk and if he had spurned fine Fourth
OF July would have been goomer than the h day OF school Money
dirty responsible for much enthusiasm
and noise money always had
string We expected spend like little gentlemen;
got from Robnson scattered around that
would bring the JOY our heather souls
OF July day early rising We used get up be-
before the beams had begun
the flag Mount Davidson The spendO that the Stars
Stripes with
patriotism and filled chock full brand of enthusiasm
that meant trouble for the md nervous redheads
shall forget these
double-headers They
Captain of fireworks We aimed them carefully and touched
With explosion they started their journey
few straight the VICTIM and at the critical completed
another explosion louder than the first When
Virginia City boy sighted the Fourth of July he
quarters worth of double headers After the quarters
worth gone enemy owed the boy something
parades o old days They seeing
had kinds of soldiers than Napoleon mashaled
glory of Irish green
with oder Captain Peter Dunno their head the Wasngtons
Nationals blue the Nontgomery the Saselds the
Tigers the battery OF artillery three four brass bands plenty OF
color, plenty of 1t glorious
course, had be En-
NETS but was the Tigers who eTght most OF us gers wore
yellow that irresistible ambition OF my life
Tiger. succeeded would have slept in the uniform
would have had the heart take off
bands and the rdshrted
fremen we small boys nothing parade noticing
plenty what wanted and thankful The
grand aids the floats and the ship of state
with stuckup Liberty gggng girls had
little Dr. Zangerle the Flying Duchman
OF aid and rode the meanes horse in town He
exception Doc charged nd down street the horse
and the parade had to do lively
de-steppng As know Doc is the only marshals aid
who ever made with the small boys.
Fourth of July is here again How the day be
properly and the Mongomerys and
the Wasneton Sarsfed and the dear old Tigers be
yond me They gone Still the free can't
derstand Perhaps getting old And yet I'm enough