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

Brick Pomeroy, ever speculative upon
current topics, has another rhapsody fo,
'the time passing:
BRICK POMEROY Stakes PETER
OLEUM
0 Petroleum you are the Pete for me
Else why% Mr. Moses suote the rock
aud water gu>hered forth, first; | smote
7 lts rock, aud exceeding much of oil trea
scle1 forth. Aud | am itch, oilso To
shnd such much of grease, doth we'll d
grease with me skirDishcd from gar
ret upon oil regiou Ever since | became
born, my poverty has been very hard to
! be borne have sufered-I have been
bored by creditors My credit was run
into the ground People thought me
srich, meanwhile, and very mean while
I it was, too! They thought l had plenty
sof money, 50 they wanted pay down for
Swhat | bought. Not wishing to humor
speople, albeit something of a humorist,
sperhaps, [ would not purchase many
ethiugs leased, | bored, brought it !!
Veni, vidi, vici! OiIiile creased Oils
we'll that ends well especially if it is an
soil well ! l bored and it came | drilled
Ia hole through a rock and oilready have
.been rewarded with so much of the fuel
prepared for the final confagration, that
t.fear the last boil will end 10 as great al
.fzzle as did the Dutch Gap Canal
And now [ am rich-more rich thanI
iaay man or any other man. [ have LOTS
|of money now, when | have no use for it ]
|What queer world Nothing like OIL!
Folks say, "Hello, here's Honorable Mr.
Brick just struck a fortune --DeucedI
Gne fellow, Mr. Brick !' Three monthsI
since, [ was plain Brick" It's oil owing
ito Petroleum
Aud now for a splurge Brown stone|
house on Fifth avenue, with brown-stonei
front designed by old Brown himself, onE
both ends of it. Red horses with greenl
tails, pink eyebrows, blue ears, chocolate!
colored eyes, frigzled manc and matchless
style. Yellow wagon with black sides,
purple blinds, and brown top. la clam
shall. Ethiopian driver with white kids,
solterino stockings, magenta hatband, and
false teeth on gutta percha base. Ands
slxty-tour extave ethiopiaua with bacca
|telle drawers, that modesty may not bes
shocked by looking at the legs thereof
And library devoted to red backs, vel \
low backs, brown. backs, maroon. backs. |;
and even "ereenbacks p Darn the ex
pense, quothes | And I'll have packE
in the woodshed, and a bathing tub of:
oil 10 the Church, and wild buffalo toh
cut steak from-and oysters as large asa
Lincoln's majority, and boots with round
toes and square heels, and seat in someE
fashionable Church, and new hoop skirts
for all my hired girls, aud l will employl
so many niggeTs to wait on me. that oilE
I'll have to do will be to be happy OBJ
Pete ! let me kiss you for your Ma AndE
i'm lay bed mornings, and III set upl
|all night, and bore my friends oil day till
they cant barel it Talk about honest
industry, saving wood for the dust |
opening oysters for the shells, blacking
boots merely to see your face 10 them i
iand being honest forty years, waiting forI
some rich man to adopt you Played |
Petroleum is the boy. And now III livel
ahigh. Out of the house vain pomp II
Away from e.cold cuts. crackers, cheese
Them mush boiled, No 5 mackerel j
warmed up soup, aud brilliant appetites
sPve struck Pete.