Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-03-21
Trouble in Muldoon,s Flat.


Fhey had good times, I'll tell you that;
And maay of them you can bet
Until there was house to let
lhen said one neighbor to the other,
What do you think, my neigher brothcr?'
sty family and are going to fit"
Then said the other, Oh behoove you,
Nct 10 move out of this fat,
Where we have all so often sat,
salking ofall our hunting trips,
Smoked our pipes and drank our snipsl
But said this neighbor of the fat,
''We are going TO move and that is patti
Idont think will make blunder,"
Well if you move you can 90 to thunder,
said the other neighbor, and got quite. mad,
Row this made the other man feel so sad,
But nevertheless the day did come,
When the knowing" neghbor was thinking some;
ae dreamed Of stove pipes and carpet tacks
Ofrooms tore up and things packed,
The other neighbor looked on and smiled,
70 move he ne'r would be beguiled,
Out Of this fiat he would not move.
no not IN winter time by iove.
The moving neighbor worked and swore
SIC pulled, he hauled, he ripped, he tore,
But then the weather was something fierce
And sad as il may seem to tell,
it showed, and showed, and showed like-wen,
d got so deep it stopped the team.
impossible as that may seem;
But finally all shat was to pack,
Was on the van and the empty fat,
AS evening fell grew DINNER and DINNER,
Gheu these old neighbors sat down to dinner
They had resolved on one last meal
TO eet together, and then to feel,
On friendly terms for old time sake,
And eat they did; plate after plate
A fews days after all this fuss,
4 hate 70 tell it, but then must,)
The con!ented neighbor in the fiat,
He laughed and laughed till ne grew fat,
At the tired man who worked and swore,
gill all his clothes from him was torn;
But, OH how things will change and turn.
One never would think that air would burn.
With lords so large and words so small,
Ipever on earth could repeat them all,
This laughing, happy; contented neighbor,
Whose thoughts and hands were far from labor;
he move, ''oh no, not he by gosh"
lie would rather do the family wash,
But hark, what means those smothered curses
AS through the house and store he rushes
The children fly in corner like mice,
His wife must be so awfully nice,
Ills customers all walk on tip-toe,
A.ust hold their breath and talk; oh no.
u happened now the moving neighbor,
Dropped in the store without a quaver;
Ills face all smiles; his moving done:
He looked quite good with whole clothes on,
When .O t was at his head was hurled,
ten pound weight, OH how it curled
Around that store, and on the floor.
He'd il struck that man he'd have been no more,
You moved, YOU did said the rate man.
Now get right out this store by
t.pt what, but why, but when, but how,
Came change like this to which we bow.
said the neighbor who had left the fiat,
AS on the floor he helpless sat,
'he men all scattered right and left.
10 see them 20 you'd have thought them daft,
Now what cou.d aid that contented neighbor.
Asup and dowu and around he'd caper;
He groaned. ne howled, he tore, he'd roar:
While rushing up AMI down that store
No one Was safe to 90 in and buy,
But the 'moving" ueighbor nked the other eve
As they au "hiyered outside the store,
u would be their happy tryst no more.
Cauid be possible he thought of moving"
fhis gritty ueighbor, who would balk at nothing
The other poor man who efC the fat
He dare not even look through a crack
into the store, he loved so well.
Aid now if could only tell
who These men were how would swell
Their hearts with hate and move and fight
Wen Just for once I think might
They we're Harry S. Lloyd and Jimmie Wright
MRS. j. f. w