Larfin at yure own story, while yu are tellin on it, is a good dele
like firing a gun oph thru the tuch hole.
A pet lam, alwus makes a kross ram.
A live harte sumtimes gits intu a ded body, so dus perls git intu
jersa clams.
"Glory enuff for one da," attendin a nigger kamp meeting.
He who skorns to be inflooensed at tall by fashun is a wize fool.
I am prepaired tu say tu sevin ov the rich men out ov evry ten, makes
the most ov yure money for it makes the most ov yu.
If i had a boy who didn't lie well enuff tu sute me, i wud set him tu
tendin a retale dri good store.
Man was kreated a little lower than the angells and has bin gittin a
little lower ever sinse.
The moste oneasy kreetur i ever perused, was a bob tale bull, in fli
time.
When a feller gits a goin down hil, it dus seem as tho evry thing had
bin greased for the okashun.
I hav known folks whose _calibre_ was very small, but whose _bore_ was
very big.
The meanest man i ever nu was the one who stole a suggar whissel from
a nigger baby tu sweeten a kup ov rye koffee with.
Pluk is a nise kompound ov pride, vanitee and vartue.
Robbers are like rane, tha fall on the just and the unjust.
We hate those who will not take our advise, and despise them who do.
XXIX.
A FU REMARKS.
Moral swashun consis in asking a man tu do what he aught tu do without
askin, and then beggin hiz pardon if he refuses tu do it.
I hav finally kum tu the konklusion, that a good reliable sett ov
bowels, iz wurth more tu a man, than enny quantity ov brains.
Musick hath charms tu soothe a savage; this may be so, but i wud
rather tri a revolver on him fust.
It alwus seemed to me that a left handed fiddler must pla the tune
backwards.
I hav often bin told that the best wa iz tu take a "Bull bi the
horns," but i think in many instanzes i shud prefer the "tale holt."
The fust law ov natur iz tu steal; the sekund law is tu hide, and the
third iz tu--steal agin.
Poverta acts the same onta a man's branes, az exercise dus onto hiz
boddy, gives an appetite.
I never could cee any use in making wooden gods mail and femail.
If the harte iz rite, the hed cant be very rong.
Tha tell me that femails are so skarse, in the far western country,
that a grate menny married wimmin are alreddy engaged tu their sekund
and third husbands.
N. B. The above remarks are not intended to be personal.
XXX.
A LEKTURE TO MALE YOUNG MEN ONLY.
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