+--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ |@ | @ || _Billing's Log._ | _TIGER LILYS._ | +--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | 1| W || @@@ December @ | | | 2| T || hath 31 daze @ @ | Thare iz in sum men a grate | | 3| F || @ @ sum kold @ @ | deal ov humor, that iz like the | | 4| S || now arouze @ @ | frolik in a puppy, dont mean | | 5| G || @ @ @ fires | ennything in purtikular. | | 6| M || merkury 10 belo @ | | | 7| T || @ a spri sixpence | | | 8| W || @ iz better than @ | * * * * * | | 9| T || a @ lazy Ω dime | | |10| F || immense sno @ @ | | |11| S || @ @ now pay | Thare iz nothing we are more | |12| G || the printer @ @ | apt to parade before others, than | |13| M || | our kares and sorrows, and thare | |14| T || @ Sister Perkins @ | iz nothing the world kares so little| |15| W || born 1500 @ @ | about. | |16| T || more @ @ @ | | |17| F || @ koldness @ | | |18| S || Sister Perkins @ | | |19| G || @ waz a femail @ | * * * * * | |20| M || lekturer @ kold | | |21| T || @ increases @ | | |22| W || Sister Perkins @ | | |23| T || lektured ¶ her @ | Reason often makes mistakes, | |24| F || @ husband nites @ | but conshience never duz. | |25| S || dreary winter @ @ | | |26| G || @ @ @ iz here | | |27| M || farewell my @ @ | | |28| T || @ @ darlings @ | * * * * * | |29| W || look for @ @ | | |30| T || @ (!) me next | | |31| F || year @ @@ @ | A blush kant be kounterfited. | +--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ _WHAT THE PAPERS THINK._ Josh Billings' Farmer's "Allminax" has come again, it is as welcome, and genial, as dew to the parched earth.--_London Speckletator._ * * * * * It is joy for the fireside, it is rest for the weary.--_Newburyport Guardian._ * * * * *