This iz the last month in the Josh Billings Farmers Alminax. Other dutys, ov a maskuline natur hav forced us tew haul in our gang plank. We would like tew hav hung on a month or two longer, and made a big thing ov it. Dear Reader we must part, and it iz like pulling angleworms out ov their holes, almost sure tew part the angleworms. I shall think ov yu az long az i liv, please tew resiprokate, when yu remember me, by uttering a tear. I hav taken a kontrakt tew remove the muskeeters from the State ov Nu Jersee, west of the Rocky Mountains, tew their new reservashun, and i am anxious tew git the bulk ov them started before they thaw out. I may lose mi life in the undertakin, but i have bin told by good judges, that it is sweet tew die for ones country. I kant tell whether this iz so or not, i never tried it. Good bye, this kussid muskeeter kontrakt iz wearing on me. _FAMILY MEDICINE._ _Joel Biggs' Sticking Salve._ A thing well stuck, iz stuck forever. This salve will stick enny man. It will undoubtedly stick the "coming man." It haz stuck every man that haz cum yet. No family should be without this matchless sticker. (Unless they are too much stuck up allreddy.) It iz put up in sticks twenty feet long, To stick a man at a distance. 31 Days. DECEMBER. 1870. Q.--Let us hear yu define water? @ @ @ @ @ A.--Water iz,----iz goose bitters. @ @ @ @ @ [Illustration] _Pile hi the harth, with beechen wood, Load down the kitchen table, Fill up the old klay pipe, And go it while yure able._