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Updated: June 22, 2025
I cooked for high-collars and swalley-tails, and low-brows and jeans till it come time to go. Incondescent to that I been poet select to the T.W.U." "Temperance?" "Not exactly. T.W.U. is Tie Walkers' Union. I lost me job account of a long-hair buttin' in and ramblin' round the country spielin' high-toned stuff about 'Art for her own sake' and such.
It's the old man talkin' to some hobo of a hired man that wants to marry his daughter. Mamie, that Billy Murphy used to run with before he got married, used to sing it. It's a kind of a sobby song. It used to always give Mamie the weeps. Here's the way the chorus goes an' remember, it's the old man spielin'."
Two or three times durin' the dance they got scatterin' applause, and when the music fin'lly stops, leavin' 'em alone in the middle of the floor, they got a reg'lar big hand. "I take it all back," says I to Ferdie. "That was real classy spielin'. Now wa'n't it?." "No doubt," he grunts. "And I suppose I should be thankful that Marjorie didn't try to jump through a paper hoop.
A waiter, hovering near by, caught the glint of his eye and brought the liquor. Then Spotty, after a libation, spoke. "Colonel," he said slowly, "most of what you has been spielin' is like the lawyer guys git off in court. I don't quite tumble, but I take it you mean you're goin' t' let me go." "That's it, Spotty! I'm going to let you go this time!" "No double crossin'?"
Ridin' rods and a-dodgin' flies; Eatin' at times when me luck was good. Spielin' the con to the easy guys, But never jest makin' it understood, Even to me, why that inside song Kep' a-handin' me out the glad, Like the grasshopper singin': 'There's nothin' wrong! And after the coffee things ain't so bad." Sundown grinned with unalloyed pleasure.
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