Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-12-31
MONEY VS. WIT.
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Sulggeldy Pisseldy HTgseIly Fritz
Lost hia money aud then his'wrsi
For ali the people about the city
When he was rich esteemed him witty.
utEhen through want he went 70 The wall.
They did not esteem him witty at aIlS
Add all the maids IL fashions thr0ng,
Turned their heads as he pass'1 aIoilgs
Turned their heads to elSt or west,
Or any way to avoid him bes-;
But The adGSe Old, "a fool for iuck, % s
Made SniSSeIdy Pisgeldy keep his pluck,
And on he went with slet her Tip's
A mIttO 10 sttaeu his upper lip.
SnieCeldy Pisgeldy cou. dn't beg.
For Aucha job Isl no goUd eggi''
But dashed head TO lose or wiua
And Just wherever he could ''went ini''
And Often, as he sot HUsht to do,
He'd on with his coat aud ''put 1t through"
Aud every cent that his iabOr brought,
Tic saved it up "a fellow ought,
Who hasn't cent TO call his own,
And .'iS OTdeT'd up'' to Ego it aIone''
By all the friends he used 10 know,
He'ore he met with his overthrow.
Thus SRiggeldy Piggeldy push'd ahead
Spending his mornings out CT his bed.
Keeping away from the bail and T0ut
And letting This mother know he was OUT"
PUt nobody knew where His,eldy stayed,
0rwhat be followed by way OF trade,
But the woman knew, by SOM OF hia ways1
That he must have had his better days,
And the stTangeSt thing OF ali in lites
They soon found out he hadn't wiiej
hut how the.Tomen could lind thai out,
Is more than I'm able to tell about;
PeThaPB they tried his busy heaIt.
Now hard al the hub OF a gravel cart
And found by all their bsst address,,
Tia; even they couldn't begin to impress
man OF so good aud s.eady carriage
With any thought akin TO marriage.
Ant' so, very properly too, at oIce
They thought tile fellow nuEt be dunee
And lIDd'n the sense to comprehend
When folks endeavOIed TO be his nlend.
Ind this, In general. iS tho case,
With all the busy human race
II they can't make man their tOUl
They re certain to write him down ''fool'
but Higseldy PiSgeldy wasn't inclined
To bother the LEI 81 his toIliHS Iuind
With thius. al his humOr or cuts at his n1mes
He's lost nloley-'twaS all the same,
For il did NO. matter to him one whit
So long as II didn't prevent him 10 get"
And 50 he got aud got aud got,
Money anu money and lot and lot,
With house aud house aud cash and eaSh,
Factories, mills and other trash.
To railroad stock he didn't aspire
He thought perhaps it wouldn't be higher
Ard it wasn't for him. as he sasely said
To put his cash in dubious trades
They said it would raise price OF his lots
And bt II the meat in the city pots,
Well, said he, do not object,
II lots Iise higher than expect
hut have ono principle over all poll,
HEvKR MAKE MONEY CTF OF AYSEcT.
Soon 10 began Bank account,
To save the cost OF The net amount,
Which otherwise must be paid clerk,
For doing such delicate dIndy work
As counting his money DER and o'eT.N
And showing the state OF his daily store.
And all the bankmen, after whilo
Seeing the size OF SmiBseldy's pile,
Gave il about as their latent
To nuke &r. Fritz their PresidentS
AID soon the pTinLs-iu a day o. two
Showed they did as they said they'd dc,
and Snggeidy now was forty Tour,
Worth million or maybe more
The women all about HIgseldy'S plaCe
Are charmed with Piggeldy's elegant face,
And all the danes both lat AID near,
Gail dear Mr.. Fritz little queer.
But EmiIy, Jane aud Maria Ann
Are told he'S catch for calch who can
Aud every QUE remembers the joke,
Which queer SIR Fritz the otter day spoke
When Mrs. "cSquigsins, thing quite common,
AAkeI Fritz to state his views Ol woman
"Why, uladanl," said he, "as times now are,
The article woman Is down below par,
The trade is down aud the mail et III
Aud women just now are devish dull.''
Thus Sngssdy PIsseldy Higsetdy Fritz,
Got back his mOIty, got back Ills wits.
And this is the way the world proceeds,
Words are nothing compared with deeds
Deeds Tor houses, deeds tor lands,
These are the deeds for beauty's hands,
These are the unly deeds that win,-
II you have not these you ''CsRt come In"
You amt good, looking about the lace,
You hav'nt tue air, the bow, the grace,
The sIalwaTt stride, nor stately pace,
In fact and truth, YOU know, ''YOu are no place.