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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3158, 2 April 1879, Page 3

The Laziest Man in Nevada.—-The Comstockers were discussing the problem of laziness in a saloon on C street. ' The laziest duffer I ever seed,' remarked Jim Bloggers, • were a man that the boys used to call 010 Laydown. They couldn't find out his first name,' cause he were too lazy to recollect it. He b'longed to the same secret society as me, and we paid him 10 dollar a week sick benefits for three weeks. Said he hurt his leg. Found afterwards by the doctor and a dozen eye witnesses that he injured his shins by walkin' up agin a cobweb. Fact. Lazy. You bet he were easy goin'. One afternoon ho fainted in the street and were brought home to bed. We weren't -to be catched this time on benefits. Said he had fainted from loss of blood. Doctor examined him and found a mosquito bite under his left ear. Fact You bet he took things comfortable. He used to lure a small boy in warm weather to hold his straw for him whilo he sucked his sherry cobbler. Axed me one day if there weren't some way of working a toothbrush by machinery. Said he wished he could eat without workin' his jaws—'/raid they'd wear out too soon. Fact. Well, I don't mind if I do.'