Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-04-06

| DVe, hungry SuOund"nI VII river, cOlu
shoulder It's oil right now Ten years
ago Buggns wouldn't speak to me, cause
wasn't well, financially speaking; ,Buggins
whisky. And when would wedlock those
cruel parents said, ooh, poor, but honest
youth, entice thyself hencel And enticed
nobody Now, these girl, and those
cruel parents, wish me to call. How are
! you, bettered circumstances ? 1t is good to
rememb ber oil these things And the time
dwells in those fond recollections of mine as
how was not wanted at fashionable par
ties. Now the doors fly wide, and ebony
angels Of shoddy swing the pannels for me
to enter and rcvel. ., Pete, your oil
right, my boy
Money More than would wad colum.
bad Everybody is willing to trust me
now. L 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 it.
How used to once dig potatoes on shares
turn grndstones for fun-milk cows for
the butter mllk-cotton strings for suspen-
ders-boss's old boots or freeze toes-hired
not at all" Dirty-fngered Type sticker y
| VI pun lbtOlldllC ~ dloOl VI stay DCulIu.
Oil is dream now Stare hilarious days
for poverty are over and shoddyis indeed
envous.
Guess can kiss Matilda Jerusha now,
and her dad won't object, for I've struck
| lie Think tailor will have chance to make
those raiments for | soon Think landlord
wont insist upon moving out Of his abode.
| Things is working now. Another vein is
opened And you don't know how nice il
is. If | go on ''bum" folks look over it
now. When | was poor they looked into it.
| can kick boot-blacks, snub poor people
break Car windows, throw goblets at walters
visit questionable places, hurrah for any
man | wish to, wink at whose wife | wisl
to, tie my team to shade trees, stand or
church cushions with dirty feet, Jam peo
pie hats down over their eyes, tell a mar
he S a liar, spit on the carpet, get drunk o.
sober, swear or not as please, and it's OF
right, for I've struck Pete And can 81
up oil night. and raise much harmony. -
No one objects. Mrs Stiggins says l an
the incest man she ever sawed Mrs. Pig
gerly says | is the most deightingist gentle
man she ever knowed. The Stiggins anC
Piggerly girls say that am most exquisiti
Gus It's oil on account of Peter Oleum
who has lately come to see me.
And I'm on it now. Have left my mea
sure for set of diamonds size of a coal bed
And | have ordered silk shirt, satin stock
ings, moirc antique elastics, and gold sha
wing cup. And LII have guitar, harp, or
gan, piana, and tinkling cimbal in the house
easy. And my hair, my whiskers my pock
ct handkerchiefs, my big clothes and m
little clothes shall bask in barrel of Petro
leum while sleep. 0, Pete, I'm fixed a
last. II found church or I'll founder
horse. I'll buy a horse railroad and run
with petroleum; hire religious editors t
puff me into Christianity, buy nomination
for that fat office, and become as stiff as oil
boiled silk. Go way poverty, I'm weare
of your caresses You have have larg
society, but | don't appreciate your grip
, Your bylaws are right, but against m
5 constitution. Now can give advice, an
: it will be needed. It's nice to have struc
= ile-one has so many more friends than h
e thought for, and people take such an intel
+ est in you. L can go on change, buy a fe
i thousand shares on call, sell gold long {
i short, deal in stock at buyers option, hay
=, arrivate box at the opera, shake hands wit
t Id Mr.. Nabob, and sing what tune | pleas,
Young man, bore for oil, Strike Pete, an
be happy Cause the earth to gush int
your lap, and beauty will gush oil over the
Strike oil and be great,
The question once was, who inflicted
- blow under the auricular of William Pa
d terson. Farewell Pat The interrogatic
:, now is: 'Who struck Pete?" I've struC
i him, and am once more happy If socie
o wants to come forward and shake u ne
! brothers hand, society can now do it.
!. young ladies of fashion wish to caress II
:. once ere | become die they will nlease stc