The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-05-23
Stlistellaueous,
SOliIOQuy Of a LOafer.

Let's see, where am Yes, | mind now.
Was coming up street-met wheel'barrow
--wus drunk, comm tother way, the wheel
barrow fell over me or fell over the wheel
barrow, and one OF US fell into cellar
don't know which now-guess it must have
been me. I'm a nice man, yes, ON
tight tore drunk Well, can't help it
-,oin't nv fault-wonder whose fuult tits !
Is it tJones' fault! No. Il it my wife's
fault? Well, it amt. Is it the wheel
barrow's fault! No. It's whisky's fault
Who is whisky! Has he large family !!
All poor, reckon. l think l won't own
him any more. I'll cut his acquaintance
pye had that notion for about ten years, and
I always hate to do it for fear OF hurting his
feelings. I'll do it now-I think liquors
iniurin' me, it's spoilin' my temper.
Sometimes get mad, when I'm drunk
and abuse Bets aud the brats-it used to be
Lizzie and the children-that's some time
AGO. I'd come home Of evenings, she used
TO put her arms around my neck and klss
mo. 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
suvs somethin' like, "Bill, you drunken
brute, shut the door after you we're cold
enough havin' no fire, 'thout lettin' the sno"
blow in that way" Yes, she's Bets, and I'm
Bill, now. amt good bill nuther won''
mass tavern without goin' in and gettin
drunk. Don't know what bank I'm on
Last Saturday night was on the river bank
drunk.
stuy out pretty late no, sometimes In
out all night fact is, I'm pretty much ou
all over-out of friends, out Of pocket, ou
at elbows and knees, and always outrageous
" dirty-so Bets says but then she's nj
Judge. for she's never clean herself. won
der why she doesn't wear good clothes-mHy
be she hasn't got 'em whose faults that
-- faint minc-must be whisky's.
Sometimes I'm in, however. I'm intoxl
Gated now, in somebody's coal cellar.-
THERE'S one principle I've got-l won't &c
IN debt never could do it. There, one o
nv coat tails is gone-got tore off, expect
when I fel in here. I'll have to get ne,
suit soon.
A fellow told me that I'D make goo
sign for paper mill, t'other day. 1t h
wasn't SO big I'd kick him. I've had thl
shirt on for nine days. and I'm atraid
won't come of without tearing. Peopl
ought to respect me more than they DO, "a
I'm in holy orders.
I amt dandy, though my clothes al
nj etty near Grecian style. ! guess tor
this window shutter in my pants t'o'he
night, when / sat down in the wax in Be
Riggs shop, and I'll have to get it mendet
or-or, I'll catch cold. II amt very stout
II is. AS the boys say, I'm fat Os matcl
and as healthy as the small pox.
NV best hat has been standing guard II
a window pane that went ont the 9TH
morning at the invitation Of brickbat. II
pe,tinp cold down here; wonder IT ain
able,to climb. II I had drink could thin
better. Lets see ain't got three cent
III was in tavern I would sponge oae'-
Whenever person treuts end says, icon
fellers," 1 always think my name is "ie
lers.'' and I've got too good manners to
fuse. Well, must leave this, or they
arrest me for an attempt at burglary. Iail
come to that yet. Anyhow, it was 4
wheel.barrow that did the hurn,--Rot me.