The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1855-04-03
SoIiIoauy of a Loafer.

L.t's see, where am | This is-coal I'm
laying on. How'd get here (reArcts.) Yes,
l lnrld now. Was comm up street-met a
wherlbarrow was drunk, comm other Way
The whelrbarrow fell over me or l over the
wh"rl-barrow and one of US fell into the cellar,
don't mind which now-guess it must been
me- I'm nice young man, yes am-tight !!
tore shot drunk Well, l can't help it
tain. my fault--wonder whose fault It's Is it
Jnn"S'$ fault no Is it my wife's fault we'll it
a:rll l. it the wlrc! burrows fault? No. It's
Wli>kry< fault. Who is Whiskey! Has he
Il L,rgr tamily7 Got many relationsl All poor
Ireckvt. think | won't own him any more.
III nut his acquaintance; I've had that notion
for about ten years and always hated to do it
for fear Of hurting his teclings--Pl do it now
j think liquors injurin ne it's spelling my
tcInrr
.'Souetmcs get mad when I'm drunk, and
abuse Bcrz and the brats it used to be Lizzie
and tire children; that's sometime ago l can
Just mind it; when came home evenin's, she
used to rur her arms round my neck and kiss
me and call me her dear Willilm. When l
comes home now she takes her pipe out Of her
;n'.utI and puts her hair out of eyes, aud says
something like Bill, you drunken brute shut
the door after you, we're cold enough haviu' no
fire thuut letting the snow blow in that way.
Yes, she's Betz and amt good bill, nuther j;
think Pm counterfeit--wont pass--a tavern
without goiI' in and getting drink. Don't
know what bank Pm ON. Last Sundayl was
Oh the river bank, drunk
l,to Pm mi
all night !; fact ,s,rm out pretty much all night
fact is, I'm out pretty much all over out Of
friends, out of pocket, out at the elbows and
knees and always ,outrageousy dirty says Betz,
but then she's no judge for she is never clean
herself l wonder why she Ioes'n wear good
clothes may be she hasn't got 'em. Whose
faults that taint mine-it must be whiskey's.
Sometimes Pm in however I'm intoxicated
now and in somebody's coal cellar. There's
one 'good principle I've got--I won't get in
debt, never could do it.. There, one Of my
cuat tails is gone, got tore of, expect when |
fell down here--Pll have to get new suit soon.
A fellow told me the other day I'd make a
good sign for a paper mill If he wasn't so
big. III licked him. Eve had this shirt on
for niue days. and I'm afraid it won't come off
without tenriu'. People ought to respect me
MORN they dofor I'm in holy orders-l amt
dandy though my" clothes is pretty near
greaseian style. guess tore this window
shutters in my pants the other night when sat
down on the wax in Ben Susg's .hop-Fll
have og-t it mended up, Or will catch cold.
| ain't very stout tx it is--though I'm full in
the face. As the boys says. Pm fat as match,
and rs healthy as the small pox. NY best hat
is standing guard for a,window pane that went
cut the other morning at the invitation OF a
brick bat It's gettin' cold down here wonder
how ILL., get out; amt able to climb. I'll had
drink, I1could think better. Lets see;
amt got three cents; wish Iwas in tavern, |
couId=stDnge one: *WHeneter anybody, treats,
and aays. come feIlefsS,tI always thinks my
nalne'sfellers." and Pve eegot too.good manners
toisefuhe.a Wen L must tlease this OF they'll
arrest ;me for an attempt burglary. II amt
come to tiiat yet ;Apyho~ it, was the wheel
barrow. diitbp harm mot me. .i3t. - =,
"a. ptrUs>5 --l,,. &. -,
Every pareht shoilde teach his children to
swim We tiear every day Of fatal accidents
to th.,<e who are unskilled in this important
art Those who can swim are sometimes lost;
bu, ,boa. ,vb,, cnnnot aeldon escabs