+--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ |@ | @ || _Brevitys._ | _BAUBLES._ | +--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | 1| F || @ Kold @ more | | | 2| S ||so @ now thrash @ |About the hardest condishun | | 3| G ||beans @ very @ |ov life to sustain, iz one ov | | 4| M ||kolder > Betsey -: |respektable poverty. | | 5| T ||Mitchell @ born @ | | | 6| W ||1842 @ kold @ | * * * * * | | 7| T ||continues @ @ Betsey | | | 8| F ||Mitchell -: had @ | | | 9| S ||a @ cork leg < |Thare are folks who kant bear | |10| G ||@ kolder @ still ¶ |to do enny thing unless thare iz a | |11| M ||@ now smite @ |commishun in it, if they subskribe | |12| T ||wood @ wind west § |a thousand dollars for bilding a | |13| W ||Hank Brewster @ |church, they want 10 per cent off | |14| T ||died 1796 @ snow |for cash. | |15| F ||@ falls @ Hank @ | | |16| S ||Brewster § died a @ | * * * * * | |17| G || | | |18| M ||@ lazyness @ kold @ | | |19| T ||waxes § now the @ |The man who kant find enny | |20| W ||hornet is hush § sum |thing to do, gennerally hunts with | |21| T ||more snow * whiske |grate caushun. | |22| F ||iz a tonick = very ¶ | | |23| S ||kold @ now pla kards | * * * * * | |24| G ||it thaws @ Lazarus | | |25| M ||died poor @ sighns | | |26| T ||ov snow @ now @ |Buty has won menny a viktory | |27| W ||renew notes @ more |but seldum has suckceeded in | |28| T ||snow @ keep calm. |keeping it long. | +--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ _K._ _Kontentment_ iz not one ov mi strong holts, i never am kontented unless i am fast asleep. If i could hav mi choice, to be thoroly kontented with things az i find them in this world, or be a Rockaway klam, i would be the klam. _L._ _Luv_ iz a game for young folks to pla at, but when a man gits az old, and az homely az i am, and takes a hand at it, he iz sure to git ukered. If ten waz the game, Cupid could giv an old phellow seven points, and then beat him badly. _M._