Lofty sirs

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Lofty sirs! you are very select and very or[cut away] and will have reserved seats in the ninetieth heaven no doubt, a and move among ^^{recognize only the best dressed and} most polite angels, well dressed, [illegible] and with real spirits and whose names are on silver door plates,—and folding ^sliding doors between ^{gas at night in} the parlors.—(As for me I am a born loafer.— ^democrat.—I assume this day, the whole debt of all I take my place by right among the sudorous or sweaty men ^classes, who feel know not whether among the boys ^men in their shirt sleeves,—the sunburnt, the unshaved, the huge paws.—) Ay dost th You You are proud of your books, your style, your bland and speech and possessed ease in society.—You put your ^^{scorch with words of} pert scorn upon ^{all intruders} the ^{and all} vagaries of reformers and innovaters.—How those niggers smell! How dare that pPaddy ride in the same omnibus with me?—What are we coming to, that an ostler ^driver or the common dock wo workman of a scow, is a handsomer man with be has better ^finer health and cleaner shaped limbs than I, who do business in my own office or store?—And these radicals and wild ^^{new fangled new crazy} loafers with ^their 'ologies and their 'isms—who can tell what the poor devils mean? Likely they do not know themselves!—

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