The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], A vagabond with Visible means of support.

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A vagabond with Visible means of support.

--A good anecdote is related of a well-known vagabond, who was brought before a magistrate as a common vagrant. Having suddenly harpooned a good idea, he pulled from a capacious pocket of his tattered coat a loaf of bread and half of a dried codfish, and holding them up with a triumphant look and gesture, to the magistrate, exclaimed: ‘"You don't ketch him that way! I'm no vagrant, A'nt them visible means o'support, I should like to know?"’

The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. June 5, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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