+--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ |@ | @ || _Brevitys._ | _SKRAPS._ | +--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | 1| T || @ Hot but dusty |Repentanse iz the most satisfaktory | | 2| F || ¶ Behold the @ |duty that a man can perform, | | 3| S || * festiff @ |but it wont kure the headake | | 4| G || @ muskeeter @ |next day, nor pay for the hot rum, | | 5| M || @ draws nigh @ |and cigars, it took to make it. | | 6| T || ¶ sum more ¶ | | | 7| W ||@ dust with heat § | | | 8| T ||now inquire @ for | * * * * * | | 9| F || @ juleps @ | | |10| S || @ big shower @ | | |11| G || § now the hen § |Thare may be some perfektly | |12| M || @ pants @ cool @ |happy people in this world, but if | |13| T || @ @ nights @ @ |they undertake to prove it, they | |14| W || @ Sam. Carter @ |will lay themselfs open to suspishun.| |15| T ||@ obituated 1865 @ | | |16| F ||sum more @ hotly @ | | |17| S ||§ Sam Carter waz @ | * * * * * | |18| G || a @ ded @ beet @ | | |19| M || @ sighns @ | | |20| T || @ ov thunder @ |I never knu a man who lived | |21| W || @ /now lift/ @ |upon hope, but what spent hiz old | |22| T || @ coucumbers @ |age at sumboddy else's expense. | |23| F || @ rain and @ | | |24| S || @ lightning @ | | |25| G || "thou shall not | * * * * * | |26| M || lie" @ much @ @ | | |27| T || @ warmth * now | | |28| W || keep @ cool @ it |To bekum famous requires | |29| T || @ thunders @ |mutch time, and merit,--fust to | |30| F || @ hark!!! @ @ |be entitled to it, an seckondly, | |31| S || |not to git cheated out ov it. | +--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ _THE BACHELOR._ The old bachelor iz born in the maskuline way, but often changes hiz base, to the nuter gender. He thinks he haz got a good lone hand, but in playing it, allmost allways gits ukered. Sumtimes, late in life, he makes up hiz mind to git marrid, and then, allmost invariably, thare are two partys, who are disapointed. _THE QUACK._