Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-06-29

SIT up all night, anu bore my fflendS OIL day
till they can't bare'l it'll. Talk about honest
industry, saving wood for the dust, opening
oysters for the shells; blacking boots merely
to see your face in them, and being homes,
forty years waiting some rich man to adopt
you'll Playedl Petroleum is the boy. Ahd
how I'll live high. Out of my house, vain
ponpl Away from ME cold cuts, crackers
cheese, the mush boiled, No mackerel
warmed up soup, and brilliant appetites I've
struck Petel ->, .y ..'
Now, when go on the street, folks run to
the windows and smile. And they smile at
me ON the street And they ask me to smile
in Ginual Cock Tails House. And they all
have kind word o, Pete you're the Ro-
leum for me Thingsin my limited kingdom
isn't as they used to once wasl Farewell,
ragged habiliments. Good bye, hungry stom-
hchl Oil River, cold shoulder It's oil right
now. Ten years ago Buggins would mt speak
to me, cause wasn't well financially speak
ling, Buggins is now as cordial as horse rad
ish or hot whisky. And when would we'd
lock those rich girl who so sweetly was unto
me, her cruel parents said 80, poor but
honest youth, entice thyself hencel'' And /
enticed-nobodyl Now, those girl and cruel
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tered circumstances tits good to remember
oil these things And the time dwells in those
fond recollectiuns of mine as how was not
wanted at fashionable parties Now the doors
fly wide, and ebony angels Of shoddy swings
the panels for me to enter and rcyel 0, Petel
you're oil right, my boyl ia. . l.n,l
| Money! More than would wad a columbiad !
Everybody is willing to trust menow have
no need for credit Rich folks are deuced
glad to see me now. They didn't once Great
is Peter Oleum, and boring is its profit! just
to think of it How l used to once dig pota-
toes on shares grindstones for fun
milk COWS for the buttermilk- strings
for suspenderst boss old shoes or freeze toes
hired man s. hat or get tanned-second ta-
Bile Or not 1T all" dirty fingered type stick
er r'--or poor mechanic--go d bt or stay be-
hind Oil is dream now. Sure, hilarious
days, for poverty are over, and shoddy is III
deed envious Eu u.M.
Guess can kiss Matilda Jerusha now, and
her dad Won't object for / We struck lie! Reck-
en- tailor will have time to make these raint-
ments for me this week. Think landlord Won't
insist upon my moving out of his abode.
Things is working now Another vein is
opened And you don't know how nice it is.
If l go on u bum," folks looks over it now.
When was poor thee looked into it. can
kick boot blacks, snub poor people, break car
windows, throw goblets at walters, visit ques-
tonable places, hurrah for any man ! wish to,
wink ut whose wife wish to, tie my team to
shade trees, stand on church cushions with
dirty feet, jam peoples hats down over their
eyes, sell man he is liar, spit on the car
pei, get drunk or sober, swear pr not as |
please, and its oil right, for Pve Struck Pete 7!
And can sit up oil night, and raise much
harmony. No one objects. Mrs. Stiggins
says am the incest man size ever sawed
Mrs. Piggerlv says is the most delghtingest
gentleman she ever knowcd The .Stiggins
and Piggerly girls says that I am most ex-
quisitious Its oil on account of Peter Ole
um, who has lately come to see me.
/! And I'm on it now Have left my measure
for set Of diamonds size IF coal bed. And l
have ordered silk shirts satin stockings, moire
antique elastics, gold shaving cup And
Ill have guitar, harp, organ, piano. and
tinklng cimbal in the house oiled with petro-
lcum while | sleep o, Pete, I'm fixed at
last IN found church or founder horse
| III buy a horse railroad, and run it with Pc
troleum; hire religious editors to puff me into
Christianity; buy {. nomination for fat Office,
and become as stiff as Soil boiled silk Go
way poverty, am wearied of your carcsses
You have large society; but l don't appre-
ciate your grip. Your by laws are right, but
against my constitution. Now can give ad
vico, and it will be needed Its nice to have
struck ile--one has so many more friends
than he ever thought for, and people take
such an interest in ynu. lean go on change,
buy few thousand shares on call, sell gold
long or short, deal in stocks at buyers option,
have private box at the opera, shake hands
with old Mr. Nabob, and sing what tune
please. Young man, bore for oil. Strike
Pete, and be happy! Cause the earth to gush
into your lap, and beauty will gush oil over
thee. Strike oil and be great. ra,,.
The question once was, who inflicted blow
under the auricular of William Patterson
Farewell Pat! The interrogation now is
-"Who struck Pete p I've struck him, and
once more am happy. If society wants to
come forward and shake a NEW brothers hand,
society can do so now. If young ladies of
fashion wish to caress me sweetly once ere |
die, they will please step forward and not
rumple my clothes If any seeker after no
torety wishes to kiss me for the Sanitary, they
can do it now, and one of my niggers shall
hold the stakes I've struck Pete, and the re-
suit is, much gorgeousness of apparel-many |
good things known to, me only by observa-
ton.
would not be poor man "
l would not if could; W +o'K b#i
But need not fret about it, r Il
--.'H' For 1 could not if would aa be-
while the earth divulges its hidden secrets in.
to my lap at the rate of three hundred bar
rels It's oil right now. Once I was merely |
a bore. Now l am a successful borer, and
my troubles have been drowned in oil by the
genius of success-Peter Oleum. H @.al
*'' '7 Oilways thine, o 7a'hiw
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