Where "A Lovely Time Was Had"
Bill Hucks, the item-chaser on the Willer Creek
Gayzette,
Was the likeliestest hustler that old man McCray
could get.
As a writer-up of runaways, an' funerals, an' shows,
Bill never had an equal, nor a rival, goodness knows.
So we sent him up a invite to a doin's Susie give,
And he writ a piece about it that was fine, as sure's
you live.
But all I kin remember is, "We hardly need to add
The guests agreed at leaving that a lovely time was
had."
O, yes - come now to think of it - her maw cooked
up some cake,
And pies and floatin' island truck that Susie helped
to make,
And they was pickle-lilly, too, and beets and jell
and jam,
And slaw, and chicken-salad, and some sanwiches
of ham.
And them Bill said was "viands," which, in writin-
up he owned
"Made a tempting feast of good things, and the
table fairly groaned.
And when the wee sma' hours were come, we hardly
need to add,
The guests agreed at leaving that a lovely time
was had."
Old Bill has gone from Willer Crick; the Gaysette
is no more;
Old McCray has stole away to find the Golden
Shore.
Susie has been married off for lo! these many
years,
And some of them that come that night have quit
this vale of tears;
But maw has in her scrap-book--'long with little
Laury's death,
And the pome about the baby and the accident to
Seth --
The piece about the doin's, and today it makes us
glad.
To read at Susie's party "that a lovely time was
had."
___William Allen White
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