eight o'clock
After we won the world 's series in 1914 and the dough had been divided up to the satisfaction of everybody but the guys that was in on the split , me and the wife had figured on one of them trips to Europe . You prob ` bly know the kind I mean , `` $ 900 and up . Bus to hotel on fifth morning out included . '' I had looked forward to this here expedition for thirty years , like a guy looks forward to eight o'clock the night he 's gon na call on his first girl . We had learned French and Eytalian off of a phonograph record and from givin ' them spaghetti dives a play . Also , I had collected a trousseau that would of made John Drew take arsenic if he 'd ever of flashed me when I was dolled up for the street . Prob ` ly you have seen somethin' in the papers about how the old country was closed to traffic right then .