it speaks volumes in yur praze, and as i winde mi wa on errants of
soal mersa, upon mi noble hoss (whose only falt, or rather misfortin
is a paneful saddil gaul,) swete gushes of jowus thout will wel up
from mi happer harte, that praps our auspicious meeting tu da ma bee
the menes of awakin in yu, a arnest kry what shal i du tu bee saved."
At the kloze ov this speach, i wud have bin willin tu bet a Box of
antydiluvions agin a 10 rowed papir of solid headed pins, that the
kolporter was nasty on a hoss swap, and i kum tu the konklusion that i
wud just feal of his stile in that wa. Pretendin tu hav just notised
his hoss i went inter fits over the diskivery, and soon found i had
struc a lead, for the star spangle bannor, never had at one time enny
more sed in its praze, than the kolporter let of in favor ov his old
hoss. Not edzackly disposed tu swaller, without stirrin, all he sed,
i thout i wud look the kritter over, and; jumpin out ov my waggin,
fur that purpis, soon found out that the trak pedler was after Jonas,
insted of me. After i had got the full size of the sarkumstanses in the
kase, i kum tu one of the brisk konklusions that the Billings family
are subject tu, by hintin in oktave, "that the kolporter was a dam
hiperkrit, and his spavined hoss a dam old pelter." This suddint bust
of centiment on mi part, awoke the sleapin pieta of the trak pedlar,
and he at wunst tuk me tu do for swarin. After i had told him, that his
prain and my swarin, was oph of the same peace, an neather ov us ment
any thing we sed, we parted,--the kolporter to save soals, and swap
hosses, and Josh Billings tu sell, for 25 sents a box, the antidiluvion
pills, as saif as rute beer, and as sartin as the bight ov a mogasin."
LVIII.
PHOTOGRAPHS.
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