+--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ |@ | @ || _Brevitys._ | _COBWEBS._ | +--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | 1| W || @ Butiful May ! | | | 2| T || air @ softly @ | The happiest people after all, | | 3| F || @ now churn @ | are thoze who are worked the | | 4| S || butter @ rainy @ | the hardest, and fed the best. | | 5| G || @ Mose Sherman @ | | | 6| M || @ born 1792 @ | | | 7| T || @ wind @ fitful @ | * * * * * | | 8| W || @ Mose Sherman * | | | 9| T || + waz a tinker @ | Thare iz sum men who hav so | |10| F || @ soft day @ | little bakbone that you kant help | |11| S || now bury beans @ | them, you mite as well undertake | |12| G || @ warm @ rain = | to stand an angleworm up on | |13| M || | end, and ask him to dance a jig. | |14| T || @ the @ way @ ov @ | | |15| W || * the transgressor @ | | |16| T || iz hard @ gentle @ | * * * * * | |17| F || weather @ @ now | | |18| S || the old @ hen @ | | |19| G || @ kakleth @ | If you give a beggar nine dollars, | |20| M || more @ weather * | at different times, and then | |21| T || Juno @ waz @ the @ | refuse him the tenth, he will sware | |22| W || @ wife ov Jupiter @ | you have cheated him out of it. | |23| T || @ bright and @ | | |24| F || butiful @ now | | |25| S || * insert @ corn @ | * * * * * | |26| G || @ Abram North @ | | |27| M || @ killed @ 1819 @ | | |28| T || pretty day * Abram | One haff the trubbles ov this | |29| W || was stung to @ | life kan be traced to saying | |30| T || dethness bi hornets | "Yes" too quick, and not saying | |31| F || allass!! allass!!! | "No" soon enuff. | +--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ _INDISKRIMINATE HINTS._