The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-02-12
THE rooRLEEcEMAN.

| KUN Toe Town. -Ide like toe be pooI
leeeeman. They is of 2 kInes. toe w
namely, white poorleecemen and bIac
poorleecemen. They all wears bic,
close and very big brass buttons whic
they has uncommon curious lookin kau
on THAR heds and is nifty feerce. Tha
mas klubs and somtimes they PLAYS Dol
sknll and sometimes they don't.
Poorleecemen has much privilidges.- :
They goes toe shows for nuthin. sieep
on peoples dore steps and catches othe
folks dorgs and hogs. which the dorge
not haviu kollers on THAR mex are pti
INTO the poun and sold toe raze inferna
avenue taxis and toe pay the salery O
her Onor the Mare. | wood hate toI
nave my, dor9 put into a poun (mor,
espeshally poun OF sassldge) for i
makes EN- look-verry subdewed anC
mellonkolly to be put into poun.
| some poorleecemen Is very chearfu
OF coal mornlns when they has bin sam
| PIN bitters-and some of the black one,
| IS IKE THAR DESCENDANT Genral HANNAH
| baii the harthygeenyonJ who was one
OF the Deilygerentest men that ever fiji
Tor liberty or deth (kwote). They don't
make no more of restin Of sick wo-
man than they do of hittin the kurb
stone with their klubs, which Gteen OF
tHem mas Dln kneDe toe resk THAR lives
In tak'n drunkin man to bhe kage.
Ide rUther be poorleecemant than too
goe iishln becaws If a man is stobbed
the poorleecemen can look at the hole
as long as they pleeze and can all ways
tell whether the deceast, which If he air
dide ruff. IlF
Poorleeccmcn always has the best
places at hanpins. Sometimes tbev
rides in the V. Hickles with kondemd.
aud can tell toe mats heal whether
the primer is goin toe be a kraven
reich or toe die gain. They nose
whether the kondemd sot sideways or A
straddle of his koffin. andhas the pIezz
ure OF bearin of his last wurds to his
afiiicted rellytivs and frens. When the
proceshun arrives at the gallus the
poorieecemen car form a holler skwair
roun the iibit Gibit means Just the same
as gallus) and If the assembulled crowd
OF spectators shows emmy sines of a
reskue the pOorleecemen has the priyy-
lidge under the moo konstitooshun of a
playin pop skull on EN- ontill the last
armed foe x. pires (kwote).
Poorleecemen is very helthy becaws
thay lives on the phat OF the Ian, eager
ly devourin the gotes & cavs that gets
into the sitty poun, and takin OF a
CRATE eel of excrsize, that is the poor
ieecemen u not the gotes and cays,-
sum of them has been knone toe 90.
from the Sitty Haul to THAR meels with
out restin, which it Is proper toe ad
thay road in the Stty karts on ton of
the durt and gar5idge which has bin
gethercd togather like untoe as a dun
gle hen gethere:h her chickens togath-
er in manner and form as charged In
the indightment.
Other poorleecemen is very strong
without regards to race kuller or pree,
vious kondishun (kwote), which thay
seam toe hay no :rubble in a holdin un
the Ornin at Lip its korner or the telIy-
graft postes in dive us parts OF the sit
by.
Sum poorleecemen is very kynd to |
bear keepers and them what STAYS in |
bear rooms late Of nights. A. this seiz-
IA of the veer when the remometer is |
Terry near q. Roe thay most IN gener-
lily very kloce toe the stoves lest toe
ieep weekly old gentlemen from a fall
n agin EN- and burrin THAR sundy |
llose, When ennyboddy says drinks Il |
lears toe rowe the poorleecemen from
halr slumbers, which 1t makes EN- so |
mad (that is toe say. the rowze) that |
hay destroy the drinks and then tell |
he bear keeper that this is part of the
iceance tacks which it is (kwote).
lde Ike toe be poorleeceman becaws
nay Ken holler tyre and ring the mark
bell without bein rekwired toe no
vhich ward the tyre is in or whether
hair is emmy tyre tall. 1t is amewsiu
Vilen tyre is at the barril facktry or
leer Mister Lockwood's folly to heer
he poorleeccmen s:rlkin the Fust
Yard with THAR cussed em ennergy
toe sea the self sakritizin hooks and
iders (which i've never sean but very
sw OF the hooks) hawlin THAR truk
.erlessly in the direckshun ofthe semi
erry or hoam of the ded (kwote), de-
TO hte bitterly agin jewry
eWty or the devourin elyment (kwote)
'hich ack0rllen toe the hook and lader
onstitooshun is won and the saim
hing, |
By way of digreshun I will ad thst
the tyre bell is kalled the a
'rm bell becaws the lst poorleeceman
nat wrung it under the new rayyeem
ecaim so much larmed that ne had
De be takin hoam in a WheaI barrer and
as spazzums toe this day evry time he
eers that bells peels.
Poor leecemen has more rites than n
'eedom or the presy dent of the u nited
'ates or the flower inspeckter. Thay
lay be seen emmy mite before s o'clock |
the evenin post p. NJ, a tryin toe
pen stoar doors and winders when .
eople is lOokin strate at EN-, and thay
on t mine it emmy moore than if thay
as takin THAR cussed EN- knap on
lie bootcher stawls of our bewtiful mark
house. Ii was poorleeceman Ide /.
ostly try to get in Mister Banksis & :
lister Mireses Konfeckshunneries or
lister Globes salewn.
lde like nifty well toe be the poor
eceman that has beet in frunt of
lister Persell & Mister Fnlltun's house,
;caws it amt so very dark long
air and becaws Mister Hopes had !
opt maxim kofiins in the late shanty
he obstinate to the stove shop OF Mis- c
+ Sutton and his child.
always had fansy for Milly Ter
+, Which it is a harrOiE site toe obzerve a
skwod of poorleecemen a marchin I
tn thare Marshats cloke aroun them 7
wote) and a keepin step toe the new II
X OF the Uneyon (kwote agin) while u
e anrlted Wimmen and children 4
ouch in terra at thare APPROACH and
lall dorgs without kollers on thare &
raze pity us howl, drop thare tales e
d retire in konfewshun before the ad- s.
nsin hoard.
There is menRy other reezuns becaws
why lde like toe bee q poorleece-
IN under the prezzent die nasty, or
geem as the Lattins kali 1T, but | al
Ist klose in time toe norate this s. o.
befo the Willminton Liseeum which sa
lav bin unanimusly invited by that pl
lie boldly to do sow without descent ef
: voice, ~
Very Since yearly q
Yourn, q. Rusalem, te