[Ads-l] Antedating of Jeepers

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:

> "Well, anyhoe, I ketchin an evryting shees go purty gude but 2 mooch slow
> u=
> ntil we hittingk sucha stashun how you callit "Parkin Place" - den train
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> ees go down big hill to town witch Connduckter callin "Mahnoy City" - den
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> rain shees backin up fur longk time and By Jeepers we stop "Parkin Place"
> a=
> gain!"
>

Where do you work-a, John?
On the Delaware, Lackawann'[a & Western Railroad]!

For those to young to recognize the above, it's a verse from a popular song
of my lost youth.


-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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