+--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+
|@ | @ || _Kronollogy._ | _KOLD KUTS._ |
+--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| 1| T || @ Bitter kold @ @ | The more humble a man iz |
| 2| W || a thing ov buty @ | before God, the more he will be |
| 3| T || @ iz a joy forever | exalted,--the more humble he iz |
| 4| F || thundring kold @ | before men, the more he will git |
| 5| S || @ @ @ if yu must | rode ruff shod. |
| 6| G || drink hot @ @ | |
| 7| M || @ rum @ do it now | * * * * * |
| 8| T || jehosiphat kold @ | |
| 9| W || @ now distruckshun | The only really natral thing |
|10| T || @ @ wood @ slam | thare iz about enny man, iz hiz |
|11| F || bang kold @ @ | conshunce. |
|12| S || Job Stearns | |
|13| G || @ @ @ born 1500 | * * * * * |
|14| M || indefatigabel kold | |
|15| T || Job Stearns @ @ | Enuff good luk will ruin enny |
|16| W || @ waz an @ | man. |
|17| T || @ itinerant @ @ @ | |
|18| F || ompompanoosuck | * * * * * |
|19| S || @ kold @ Job @ | |
|20| G || itinerated @ @ @ | Whare thare iz one man obstinate |
|21| M || @ tin ware | bekauze he iz wize, thare iz |
|22| T || sno phawls @ now | 4,695,853 obstinate bekauze they |
|23| W || stir up @ @ @ | are ignorant. |
|24| T || @ @ yure goose | |
|25| F || unimpeachible kold | * * * * * |
|26| S || @ roosters freeze @ | |
|27| G ||yures, with sparkling | Trust in God first, yure nabor |
|28| M || @ hopes--Josh | next, and yureself last.--AMEN. |
|29| T || Billings @ | |
|30| W || @ Allminacker @ | |
|31| T || | |
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_HEAR THE PAPERS TALK!_
We would rather be the author of Josh Billings' Farmer's Allminax for
1875, than be elected captain of a malitia company.
_Coonhollow Demokrat._
* * * * *
Josh Billings' Farmer's Allminax for the year 1875, is just hatched out;
it is like a Thanksgiving pudding, full of rich things; buy it, and set
down in a corner, and read, and be happy once, if you never are again.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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