Price and Emory Chambers owned a saloon and Carrie Nation came and destroyed it.

The following was overheard at "Jim's Place" after it was announced that Carry Nation would be here Friday, and handed to the printer.

Say, Emery, git ten two-by-fours

'Nd twenty six-by-eight,

'Nd order from the hardware store

Ten sheets of boiler plate.

'Nd phone the carpenters to come

Most might quickdon't wait,

For there's a story on the streets

She's coming on a freight.

Oh, many years I've carried on

My business in this town

I've helped build everything

From the church on down.

I've let gig men for a wink,

get jags here every day

Say, Emery, get a move on, fer

She's headed right this way.

For after all their efforts bring

But mightly little fruit.

But when crow-bars 'nd hatchets

'Nd hand aces fill the air.

Say, Emery, get that bolter iron

Across the window there

It beats the nationno, I think

The Nation's beating me,

When I can pay a licenses here

"Nd still not sell it free.

Fer I must keep my customers

Outside 'nd make 'em wait,

Because the story's got around

She's coming on a freight.

There, Emery, now we've got her

Sic-by eight across the door,

'Nd solid half inch bolter iron

Where plate glass showed before.

Cut, Em, before that freight arrives

You'd better take a pick

'Nd pry that cellar window loose,

So we can get out quik.

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