"All I Get Is A Buzzing" - "Who was Yellow Cat?" the 82-year-old "Heno Muskrat" asked. "And who was Bulzer?" "High Pockets?" "Hancock?" "Connie?" "Pete?" "Duke?" Your newspaper ought to have a contest to find out. "And who was the Heno Muskrat?" he asked. The Heno Muskrat, he continued without waiting for a reply, was himself - Gilbert Stubbs, retired railroad worker, landlord, horse car driver, fence builder, refreshment stand operator, logger and present member of Middletown's Golden Age Club. "And Pete was Stanley, Bip was Paul, Duke was Lawrence Woods,” he went on and on, and there wasn’t need for a contest any more. West Middletown gave these names to his friends in the late years of the 19th century or the early ones of the 20th. "In those days if you went to West Middletown for three days, you'd get a nickname..."
"All I Get Is A Buzzing" - "Who was Yellow Cat?" the 82-year-old "Heno Muskrat" asked. "And who was Bulzer?" "High Pockets?" "Hancock?" "Connie?" "Pete?" "Duke?" Your newspaper ought to have a contest to find out. "And who was the Heno Muskrat?" he asked. The Heno Muskrat, he continued without waiting for a reply, was himself - Gilbert Stubbs, retired railroad worker, landlord, horse car driver, fence builder, refreshment stand operator, logger and present member of Middletown's Golden Age Club. "And Pete was Stanley, Bip was Paul, Duke was Lawrence Woods,” he went on and on, and there wasn’t need for a contest any more. West Middletown gave these names to his friends in the late years of the 19th century or the early ones of the 20th. "In those days if you went to West Middletown for three days, you'd get a nickname..."
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