The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-02-20
1GINC NATL Q. FRID 4, FEBRUARY 20, 1852


get out in the sun in summertime and fine
weather. pitIes them, poor feiloWsl its hard
luck they've got.
'1'm always cheerful minded, 'cept when I'm
very hungry, and got nOthin' to take home to
my wife. We don't want much--its very lit
tie as keeps her: but don't like to 90 home
without nothin in my pocket; then | thinks
it's too bad, and gifts lOW-spirited; but soon
goes to sleep and fOrgits it, cos I'm SO tired
when goes home. My wife earns sumthin
most weeks, sometimes she looks after little
children when their mothers goes out a.charin'
She has three half. pence day for child; when
we git two babies for week that makes eigh.
teen pence, and pays the rent. A good thing
that would be, if we could do it always. She's
very fond O. little babies, and knows how to do
Tor EN- as we'll as mother most, though she
never had one Of her own.
Saturday is my best day. My customers
knows | can't play the fiddle on Sunday, and
50 gifts good allowance of Vittles, aud fills
my bag. There's butcher not far Oft as giVes
me reg lar good stew Of bones and cuttin's
every Saturday night. That's my Sundays
dinner, and famous dinner my wife makes on
it. There's policeman out here as collars me
reg lar whenever my bags bit full, and turns
1t all out, and axes me where l stOleit. | says:
III answer that there question at the station
house, If you Likes to take me there; but he
never takes me up. That's a noosance, that is
81 never buys no clothes; 1 git as much as
want give me. The boots is the worst. In
course, | never gifts them till they re worn out;
and as | can't afford to have m l. ended when
it rains my feet is always wet; but I'm pretty
well used to it--that's one good thing. This
time Of year it's very bad; there's SO much bad
weather, and so few people about, that blind
fiddler might as well stay at home. There's
been notbn but rain all the week. only
earned two-pence yesterday, and that just makes
up the rent as was over due. There was moth
| ing foe supper, though had nothin' all day
but bit O bread in the mornin' and to-day
there was none for me to have, so | come away
without any. Ny wife has had her vittles to-
day--that's one comfort; she went out afore
did to go a-Washin; she II earn sixpenee besides
her withstand we'll have good supper TO-.
night thank God
GIVE had good many accidents n my time
| There's so many omnibusses now, that blind
man can't Veuture off the pavement. 1t takes
me half an hour sometimes to get across from
| the "Anger' into the City Road. I've been
4 AHUEhGu uU"h W Cduo huu UiLlluusEa blA VI bbF-
en- times; l never got hnrt much myself but my
| fiddle has been broke all to pieces several times
| always mend it myself, but it's a deal O.
trouble and loss of time while the Clues dry
iu'. Drunken men is worse than omnibuses -
I've been beaten about by drunken men many s
the time, COS couldn't play the tunes they
wanted. | never goes into public house now;
had SO many tricks put upon me that | finds
t,rAk - lrarv. = III H.
once by lot O. lrishmen; they knocked me |
about dreadful aud filled my fiddle full o beer
and then made me play upon it. and cut the
strings while WAS playin. They done that
cos m avery little fellow, and got no strength.
That's too badl Sometimes gentlefOlks is none
too civil. Just sfOre come to your gate, tried |
at house little way down the road; gentle
man come rushin' out, catches me by the
throat, and twists me roun' an roun', and
shoves me over the steps a swearia' as how he'd |
got two scrapers at his door ready, and didn't
want another That amt civil, seem Ifiddles
as well as | can an he got no call to pay for it /
if he hainta mind to.
Il don't know as | can tell you anything
more, sir. You ace don't know much Of the |
world. Ny wife's merry little woman, aud
can go without dinner and never grumble, |
many's the day she gifts no vittles no more nor |
myself. When there amt no viltles in the |
cupboard, and no means Of earnin' any, tells /
her not tOgt up, and SO she lies a-bed all day, |
cos it's easier fastin' in bed than when you is |
up and about. If brings home anything then |
she gifts up and cooks it, and then we're all |
right. We always hopes for better limes, and
il we don't live to see 'em, why then we shan't I
grieye for the want Of 'em. plays the song
There's good time comm, boys, " and my
wife sings it. There's no harm IN hopn' that
we may all live to see it. That's all I've got to
say, sir"
With that, this accomplishing heir Of adverse
fortune rose from his seat placed his fiddle un-
der his arm, and thanking me warmly for all
fnvors, CROPPED his way up the kitchen stairs and
took his departure. ! have given his history as
be detailed it; ii has had no coloring and re
quires no comment at my hands. 1t Is just one
Of those revelations of the mysteries of common
life which are only remarkable because the
world in general has not chosen 10 make them
an object Of remark. But verify it has use
and signification which discontented respecta-
blity, cushioned in its easy chair, may do veil
to ponder.
90" A pnSss some thing like the following,
came off at market house not many miles dis
tamil
Boy-"Mister, how do you sell beef this
morning"
Man.--"Why, seven cents a pOund--how
much will you hsve1'
Boy.-"Seven cents chs have you got
ktdrt7"
Man.--''No--iust sold it,
Boy We'll, ljust knoW'd you couldn't have
a heart, and ak seven cents for beef, I'm sorry
you sold it--csuse I'd liketo have some meat F."
A moment after the boy was seen running out
Of the market house, and q shin bone sailing
after him. s.g
GT The following is good news from the
tribe Of poor 'BOb Winter OIL
PATRiDGEs.-The York Pa) Free Press,
states that the spOrtsmen Of that place have from
e4ght hundred to one thousand patridgss coop
I'd, which they purpose letting loose again in |
the spring, in order that they may not become |
entirely extinct in that region Of country.