wave uv success, and at other times bein down in the trough uv
despondency and despair.

I mite say more, but wherefore? Ez the record uv a year uv hopes and
fears, uv exaltation and depression, it may possess interest or may
not--'cordin to the style uv the reader. Whatever may be its fate, one
thing I am certin uv, to wit: I am a reglerly commissioned P.M.; and
while the approval of the public mite lighten the toils uv offishl life
and sweeten the whisky wich the salary purchases, the frowns uv the said
public can't redoose me to the walks uv private life. They can't frown
me out uv offis, nor frown P.M. General Randall's name off my commishn.

P.V.N.

POST OFFIS, CONFEDRIT × ROADS
(wich is in the State uv Kentucky),
Oct. 1, 1866.




SWINGIN ROUND THE CIRKLE.




I.

After the New Jersey Election, 1865.