Item - Metropolitan Pen Pictures: The Bar-Room Bummers

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 25 no. 37 — page 8
Alternate Title:	The Bar-Room Bummers
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXV, no. 37, July 28, 1870 (Issue)
Author:	Urner, Nathan D.
Date:	July 28, 1870
First Sentence:	There are many melancholy, as well as ludicrous and degraded traits in the character of the real, genuine, uniform "Bummer," as, in the prevalent fondness for slang, we have come to designate the man who has degenerated into a hopeless, shameless inebriate.
Last Sentence:	I remember the unusual melancholy with which he spoke these words-I remember it now with a deathly chill; for they prophetic, and the speaker now fills a bummer's grave!