To make boarding-house hash, take a little ov every thing, a good deal
ov nothing, and throw in a chunk ov sumthing; jam to a mux, cook over a
kold fire, season with hair pins, and sarve it up on the jump.
* * * * *
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself
once in a while.
* * * * *
To find the solid contents ov a mule's hind legg, feel ov it clussly.
31 Days.
MARCH.
1871.
Q.--Who iz the coming man?
A.--The female suffragist.
[Illustration]
_Dear girls and boys, take mi advice,
And don't go on the rotten ice;
For many a gal has fell chuck in,
And thus has ketched her final ducking._
+--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| @| @ || _History_ | _CAPER SAUCE._ |
+--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| 1| W || _Streaks ov wind_ | Natur never makes enny blunders; |
| 2| T || @ haul in yure | when she makes a phool, |
| 3| F || close line @ @ | she means it. |
| 4| S || | |
| 5| G || @ _windy_ @ @ | * * * * * |
| 6| M || de gustibus non | |
| 7| T || et cetera @ @ | Thare iz sum pholks in this |
| 8| W || @ _skey overkast_ @ | world who spend their whole lives |
| 9| T || | a hunting after righteousness, and |
|10| F || ignorance iz bliss @ | kant find enny time tew praktiss |
|11| S || @ bring out yure | it. |
|12| G || geese @ @ @ | |
|13| M || @ _cold wind_ @ | * * * * * |
|14| T || | Human happiness iz like the |
|15| W || and let them March | Hottentot language, enny boddy |
|16| T || _windy windness_ | kan talk it well enuff, but thare |
|17| F || @ use Higinbottoms | aint but phew kan understand it. |
|18| S || | |
|19| G || pills @ @ @ | * * * * * |
|20| M || @ _wet rain_ @ | |
|21| T || they are az mild | Grate transgreshuns seem tew |
|22| W || az a juice harp @ | baptize themselfs,--if the Devil |
|23| T || John Rogers died | had only bin gilty ov pettit |
|24| F || 1683 @ @ | larceny, he never would hav bin |
|25| S || _sum more wind_ @ | heard ov agin. |
|26| G || he fell in the | |
|27| M || fire @ @ @ | * * * * * |
|28| T || @ _8_ now tap for | |
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