The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-04-19


me to smile in Ginuel Cock Tails house.
! Aud they all have kind word. D, Pete,
You're the Roeum for me Things in
! my limited Kingdom isn't as they used
! 10 once was Farewell, ragged habili-
ments, Good bye, hungry stomach :
sOil River, cold shoulders It's oil right
now. Ten years ago Buggins wouldu't
speak to me, cause [ was not well, fnan.
cally speaking. Buggins is now as cor.
sdial as horse radish or hot whisky. And
lwhen I would wedlock those rich girl,
! who so sweetly was unto me, her cruel
sparients said, 80, poor, but honest youth,
eentice thyself hence !' And l euticed
nobody! Now those GIRL and that
1 scruel parieuts, wish me to call. How
Sare you, bettered circumstances =? 1t is
I good to remember oil these things And
sthe time dweIls in those fond recollec-
ations of mine as how was rot wanted
] at fashionable parties. Nov the doors
sfy wide, and ebony angels of shoddy
/ swing the panels for me to enter and
revel. O, Pete, you're oil right, my boy
Money More than would wad co
llumbiad Everybody is willing to trust
me now. | have no need for credit. Rich
sfoIks are deuced glad to see me now
They ddu once. Great is Peter Oleum,
hand boring is its profit Just to think
sof it. How | used to once dig potatoes
san shares-turn grndstone for fun-milk
scows for the buttermilk-cotton stri0gs
l for suspenders-boss's old boots or freeze
] atoes-hircd mans hat or get tanned
second table or none at all-'dlrty du-
sgered type sticker," or poor mechanic
I 90 afoot or stay behind Oil is dream
now. Stare, HILARIOUS days. for poverty
are over, and shaddy is indeed envious.
Guess | can kiss Matilda Jerusha now
land her dad won't object, for I've struck
ale. Reckon tailor will have time to-
smake those raiment for me this week
Think landlord won't insist upon my
smoving out of his abode Things are
working uow. Another opened ! And
| syou don't know how nice it is. If | go
] sun bum" folks look over it now. When
| was poor they looked into it. | can
/ kick tn boot blacks. snub poor people,
I break car wiodows, throw gobets at wait
i Iers, visit questionable places, hurrah for
sauy man | wish to, wink at whose wife L
wish to, tie my team TO shade trees, standI
on church cushions with dirty feet, jamI
speople's hats down over their eyes, tell d
| sman he is liar, spit on the carpets, getI
Sdrunk or sober swear or not as | please ]
J and its oil right, for I've struck Pete u
And | can sit up oil night, and raise
much harmony. No one objects. Mrs
sStiggings says | is the incest man she everI
sawed Mrs. Pggerly says | is the most
sdelig ghtiugest gentleman she ever knowed,I
The S:iggings and Piggerly girls say Il
am mostly exquisitous It's oil on account
of Peter Oeum, who has lately come toI
ssee NE.
And I'm on it now. Have left myl
measure for a set of diamonds size of a!
lcosl. hOd And have ordered silk shirts !!
satin stockings, moire antique elastics)
Iaud gold shaving cup. And I'll haveI
Ia guitar, harp, organ, piano, and thel
1tinkling cymbal in the house, oiled With
petroleum, so they will play easy. And|
my hair, my whiskers, my pocket hand
.kerchief, my big clothes and my littlel
sclothes shall basK in a barrel of petroleum.
while | sleep o, Pete, | am fixed att
last I'll found a. church. or founder al
horse III buy horse railroad, and runE
lit with petroleum; hire religious editors!
ito puff NE into Christianity Guy nom;
ination for fat Office, and become as stiff
Jas oil-boiled silk. Go way, poverty,
wearying of your caresses F.! You have.
"a large society, but [ don't appreciated
your grip. Yo1r bylaws are right, butt
against my constitution. Now | can givej
advice, and it will be needed Its NIGEL
to have struck ile--one has SO many MOI e;
friends than he ever thought for, andj
people take such an interest III you. Ii
can 90 On change, buy a few thousand
shares on call, sell gold long or Short
deal in stocks at buyers option, have al
private box at the opera. shake hands
with old Mr. Nabob. and sing what tuneI
Il please Young man, bore for oil StrikeI
Pete, aud be happy Cause the earth
to gush into your lap, ard beauty will
gush oil over thee. Strike oil and bel
great.
The question once was, who Inflicted a
blow under the auric1lar Of William Pat
tersoa. Farewell Pat! The interrcga
|tion now is "Who struck Pete 2" Ivei
struck him, and once more am happy.
|Tf sucie:y wants to come forward aud
shake new brothers. hand, society can
do it now. Ifyoung ladies' wish to caress
lme sweetly once ere | become old, theyA
Twill please come forward and not rumpeE
my clothes If any seeker after notoriefys