Connecticut western news., 1873-05-02
SOlilOquy of n LOaKer.

Let's see, where am |? This is-coal I'm laying on. How'd get here Treflects] Yes, mind now. Was coming up stree, was drunk, comin' tother way the wheel barrow-and one of us fell into tbe cellar don't mind which now-guess it must a been me. I'm nice young man. yes am tight! tore! drunk! We'll, can't help it-taint my fault-wonder whose fault 'tis? Is it Jones fault? no. IL is my wife, fault ? well is 'aint. Is ii the wheel hu- rows faultP no. It is whsky's faut N hu is whisky? Has he large family Al poor. reckon. think I Non', uvn him my more, I'll cut his arqr.lulnur; T,, had that notion for about ten y,ars md always hated to do it for fear of hur,in. his feelings. Til do it now-I think liq1pr's '"jurin' me. lis sp"itin' my mp r.
 Some times vet mud when I'm drunk. md abuse B iz and the hrats; it used to be Lizzie and the children; that's some time ago. come home evenin's she used to put her arms around my neck and kiss me, and Call me her dear William. When come home now, she takea her pipe cut of ner mouth and puts her hair out of her eyes, says something llke-'- BAl, you drunken brute. shut the door alter yOu, we're cold enough havin' DO tirc. t'houy let. ting the snow blow in that Way" Yes. she's Btz and Pm Bill now I am, :. good bill, nuther, think I'm counterfeit won, pass tavern 'thou goiu' and getting drunk. Don't know what bank I'm on. Last Sat urday was on the river bank drunk.
 l stay out pretty late no, sometimes Tn, out all night fact is I'm out pretty much all over-out of friends, out of pocket, out ut the elbows and knees. and always ouira- geously dirty, 80 Br,z says. but then she's no judge. for she is never clean herself. l wonder why she doesn't wear good clothes, may be she hasn't got sm: whose faults that 'taint mine-must be whisky's.
 Sometimes I'm in, however; I'm intoxi- catated now, and in somebody's co"I cellar. There's one great principle I've got-I won't get in d .bt. never could do it, There, one of my coat tails is gone, got tore off, expect, when fell down here. I'll have to get new suit soon. A fellow told me the other day Td make good sign for papsr mill. If he wasn't 80 big I'd a licked him. I've had this shirt on nine days, and I'm afraid it won't come of without tearin'. People ought to respect me more than they do, for I'm in holy or dets-1 aint dandy, though my clothes ar.. pretty near grecian style. guess tore a window shutter in my pants the other night, when sat down in the wax in Ben Rugg's shop I'll have to get it mended up, or I will catch cold. Iain't very stout, as it is. As the boys sny. I'm fat as a match, and as healthy as the small pox. My best hat is standing guard fora winGow pane that went out the other morning at an invitation of a brick-bat. It's gettin' cold down here i; wonder if ain't able to clim, If had a drink could think better. Let's see uin't got three cents wish was in a ,av ern, could sponge one. Whenever any hody treats and says come fellers always think my names fcllcrs, and Tv" got '",. good manners to refuse. Well I nus icav. this, or they'll arrest me f"r au n.,"n,pf ,o burglary I ain't come tO 'hal ..,f Anv- ,ow V was tue wheelbari'ow tii lAe us,rm not tne.
 RnBBING THE Nil For months D tsi, :, the popular aud rrlnNy pn,iishrrs. Mrssrs Hunter & O., of Hiasdale \. II, have
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