The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-11-14

| our sympathy TO freedom, and withholding
all but moral support to the most patriotic
of the combatants.
Lyrics OF Loa q r. M soiiioquy or u
DrMnkard.
Let's see. where am !? Yes, mind now.
Was coming mp street, met a wheolbarrow~-
was drunk, COMM t'otber way; tbs wheel.
barrow fell over me, or | fell over the wheel
barrow, and one of us fell into the cellar
don't know which now-guess ii must have
been me Pm nice map--yes, am--tight /!
tore drunk Il We'll, | can't help it--tain't
my faut--wonder whose fault 'tis2 10 10
Jones' fault2 No. 10 il my wife's fault7-
Well ii amt. Ia it the whoelbarrow's fault?
No. It's whisky's fault. Who 10 whisky?-
Has he a large family? All poor, / reckon /?
| think | WON'T own him any more. In cut
his acquaintancs--pve had the notion for
about ten years, and 1 always hate TO do it
for fear of hurting bis feslings--I'll do it
now think liquors. injuring me; it's spoil
in my temper.
Sometimes get mad when I'm drunk, and
abuse Bets and the brats sit used to be Liz
ze aud the chiidren--that's some time ago.
I'D come home of evenings; she used TO pot
her arms around nv neck and kiss me, and
call me her dear William. When | come
home now, she takes her pipe out Of her
mouth and hair out of her eyes, and Save
somethin' like, "Bill, you drunken brute,
shut the door after you; we're cold enough
hnvin' no FIRE, 'thous lettin' the snow blow
in that way.o Yes, she's Bet and Pm Bill,
now. l amt good Bill ,nuther; won't pass
q tavern without goin' and gsttin' drunk. -
| Don't know what bank I'm on. Last Sat
urdsy night Was on the river bank drunk.
| | stay ont pretty late; no, sometimes I'm
out all night; fact Ia, Pm pretty much out
oil over-out Of friends ont OF pocket on,
OF elbows and knees, and always outrs geous.
ly dirty-so Bet says; but then she's DO
| Judge, for she's never clean herself. | won.
der Why she doesn't waar good clothes
maybe she hasn't got ZEN; whose faults
that 'taint mine--mast be whisky's.
| Sometimes I'm in however Pm intoxica-
| ted move, In somebody's coal cellar. There's
one principle I've got--l won's get in debt
never could do it. There, one Of nv Goa,
tails Is gons--tore of, ! expect, when fell
| 10 here; I'll have new suit soon.
| A fellow told me that I'D make good sigr
for paper MILL t'osher day. II be wasn'l
so big 20 lick him. pse had this shirt or
for nine days, and I'm afraid II won't come
off without tearing. People ought to respect
me more than they do, for I'm in holy or.
ders,
amt dandy, though my clothes ar,
pretty near Greeian Style. | guess ! tore
/ this window shutter in nv pants, poEhel
/ night, when sat down in the wax 10 Ben
Riggs shop, and pll have TO get sNsnded
or or I'Il catch cold. | amt VERY stout a,
il is. Az ihe boys say, I'm fat as match
and healthy as the tmsll-pox,
MY beet hat has been standing guard for
window pane that went out the other morn
int at the invitation Of brick. It's gettin
cold down here; wonder II | amt able Il
climb. III | bad drink, | could think bet
ter Let's see | amt got three cents; il
was in tavern could sponge one. When
ever = person treats and says. "eome frl
lers," always think my name 10 "fellers,
and Tve got too good manners TO refuse
Well, must leave this, or they'll arrest m,
for an attempt at burglary. | ain's com
to that yet. Anyhow, IL was the wheelbar
row that did the harm not me.