Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-04-23
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| THE FINE ARKANSAS GENTLEMAN
Now all good fellows listen and story will tell
Ola mighty clever gentleman who lives extreme
| ly we'll,
In the western part of Arkansaw, close to the In
dian line,
Where he gets drunk once a week on whiskev,
| and Immediately sobers himself completely on
the very best of wine;
A fine Arkansas gentleman close to the Choc-
taw line.
This fine Arkansas gentleman has mighty fine
| estate,
OF five or six thousand acres or more ofland that
| will be worth great deal some day or other if
| he don't kill himself too soon, and will only con-
| descend to watt '' '7'"'-7- '-.'
| And four or five dozen negroes that would rather
work than not,
And such quantities ofhorses, and cattle, and pigs,
and other poultry, that he never pretends to
know how many he has got; ...
This fine Arkansas gentleman, close to the
Choctaw line.
| This fine Arkansas gentleman has built splen-
did house, 1.F ,-
On the edge of a big prairie extremely we'll popu-.
lated with deer, and hares and grouse;
And when he wants to feast his friends, he has
nothing more to do,
Than to leave the po-lid off, and the decently- be-
haved birds fly straight into the pot, knowing
he'll shoot them if they don't and he has splen-
did stew; -.
This fine Arkansas gentleman, close to the In
dian line.
This fine Arkansas gentleman makes several hun
dred bales,
Unless from drought, or worm, or getting bad
stand or some other damned contingency his
crop is short, or falls u
And when it's picked, and ginned, and baled, he
puts it on boat,
And gets aboard himself likewise, and charters the
bar, and has devil of spree, while down to
New Orleans he and his cotton float;
This fine Arkansas gentleman, close to the
Choctaw line. ,..,. .,
And when he gets to New Orleans he sacks
clothing store,
And puts up at the City Hotel, the St. Louis, the
ST. Charles, the Verancah, and all the other no.
tells in the city, if he succeeds in finding any
Then he draws upon his merchant, and goes about
and treats
Every man from Kentucky and Arkansas and Ala
bama, and Virginia. and the Choctaw nation,
and every other damned vagabond he meets;
This fine Arkansas gentleman, close to the
Choctaw line. 80! s@esi -
The last time he was down there, when he
thought of going back, ID " s's-"'i"@ ~
After staying about fifteen days or less he discov-
cred that by lending and by spending, and being
a prey in general to gamblers hackmen, loafets,
brokers' hoosiers, tailors, servants and many
other individuals white and black, @f1 ts.tszF
He'd distributed his assets and got rid of all hia
means, .staa
And had nothing left to show for them, barrin two
or three headaches, an invincible thirst and an
extremely general and promscuous acquaintance
in the aforesaid New Orleans;
This fine Arkansas gentleman, close to the
Choctaw line.
Now, how this gentleman got home is neither here
nor there,
But I've been credibly informed he swore worse
than forty-seyen pirates. and fercely combed
his hair; .a..- .s.
And after he got safely home, they say he took an
That he'd never bet cent again at any game of
cards, and, moreover, for want of decent ad-
yisers, he foreswore whiskey and women both,
The fine Arkansas gentleman, close to the
Choctaw line. ..... z, .--.....-.f,-
This fine Arkansas gentleman went strong, for
Pierce and King, ..s ......,... t,-n..- a..
And so came on to Washington to get nice fat
office or some other mighty comfortable thing;
But like him from Jerusalem that went to Jeri-,
cho, ...
He fell among the thieves again. and could not win
bet whether he coppered or not, SO his cash
was bound to 60; ---.-.--...-
The fine Arkansas gentleman, close to the
Choctaw line.
10 when his moneys all were gone, he took unto
his bed.
And Doctor Reyburn physicked him, and the
chambermaid, who had great afectionfor him,
with her arm held up his head; .,. r.s.
And all his friends came weeping round and bid
ding him adieu,
md two or three dozen preachers, whom he didn't
know at all, and didn't care curse if he didn't
came praying for him too;
This fine Arkansas gentleman, close to the
Choctaw line, .sss ..a
hey closed his eyes, and spread him out all ready
for the tomb, .. .-
md merely to console themselves they opened
the biggest kind of game of faro right there in
his own room;
'ut when he heard the checks, he flung the linen
off his face,
nd sung out Just precisely as he used to do when
he was alive,
Prindle, don't turn! hold on! l go twenty on the
King and copper on the AceW
This fine Arkansas gentleman, close to the
Choctaw line. PIKE.
pMary Benton the Oldest woman in the
world, died at Elton, England, on the 9Th ult.
f she had survived until the 18th of February
he would have attained the unprecedented