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Brick" Pomeroy Strikes Peter Oleum

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Day
22
Month
September
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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Petroleum you are tho Pete for me Else why? Mr. Meses amóte the rock nd exceediugly much oil treaolee forth. And I am riuh oilao. To find so niucb grease, doth wcll agrease with me. I skirtnished fronj the garret upon the oil región. Ever since I becam bom, iny poverty has been hard to be borne. I have 8tiffered - I have been bored by creditors. My credit ha been run into the ground. People thought me rich nieunwhile, bd(1 a very mean whila it was too. Thoy though I had plenty of money, so they wantet pay down for what I bought. No wisLing to humor people, albeit some tuin? of a humorist, perhaps, I wil] not purchase many thing. I leaaed, ] bured, I bought it. Veni, vidi, vici Oil i He-i örease-i. Oils well that ends well. I bored, it eame. I drilled a hole through a rock, and have alreadj been rewarded with so much of the fuel being prepured for the final conflagration, that I fear tbe last boil wili oud in ag groat a fizzle as did the Dutch Gap Caual. Aud iiow I am rich-more rich than any man or any otber. I have lots of money uow, when I have no uge for it. Whut a queer wnrld. Nothing like oile. Folkg any 'H-illo, here's Hooor able Mr. Brick, just etruck a fortune. Deuood fiue fellow, Mr. Biick." Three months sioce I was plain " Brick. It'a all owing to Petroleum. And now for asplurge. Brown stone ïouse on B'ifth Avenue, with brown etone front, designed bv old Browu himBelf, on boih ende of it. Red borses with greon tails, pink eyebrowi?, blue eyee, chocolate colored ears, frizzled marie, and mutchless etyle. Yellow wngon and black sides, purple blinds, and browo top, a Ia clam ahell. Ethiopian driver, white kida, solferino stockings, magenta hatband, and false teeth on gutta percha baso. And a sixtyfour ethiopiano, witb brocntelle drawer, that nodesty may not be shocked by looking t the legs thereof. And a library deoted to red backs and even greenbaeks," ■'Darn the expenses," quoth I. And I'll have a park in the woodshed, and a bathing tub full of oil in chureh, and a buffulo to steak frora - and oystera as large us Liucoln's majority, aud boots with round toes and square heels, and a geat in a fashionable church, and nevc hoop skirti for all my hirod girls, and I'll eroploy o many niggers to wait on me, that oil I'll have to do will be to be bappy. Oh Pete ! let me kia you for your Ma. And I'll lay abed morninge, and eit up all night, and bore my friends oi! day, till they oan't bare'l it. Talk about honeït ndustry Mawing wood for the dust, opening oysters for the ehells, blacksning boota merely to seeyour iace in them, aud being honest tbrty years waiting for some rich man to adoptyou. Played. Petroleum is the boy. Aud now I'll live high. Out of ruy house vain i omp. Away from ibe cold cuts, craekera, eheese, mush büiled, No. 5 nwckerel, warmed-up goup, and brilliaut appetitoe. I've struck Pete.

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