Study In Natural History By A Veteran Night Clerk
A Cincinnati Commercial Gazette item recounts Col Roomboy the night clerk's humorous study of hotel cockroaches. He describes their duodeciped social order, nocturnal habits, and playful migrations, praising their sport and even calling them better household poets after they drink ink from the counter blotting paper. The piece notes a rival in the colored servitor and shifts to Thackeray anecdotes and a brief note on seafaring slang from Liverpool Mercury.
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