Thare iz no better kompliment tew vartue than this: "That Vise alwus
konkocts her grate plans in the naim ov vartue."
The tempel ov Fame iz lokated on an exceeding hi mountin, and yu hav
got tew fli or kreep tew git tew it. (N. B. This provarb haz bin ced
before, and ain't one ov mine, but it iz jiss as tru as tho it was.)
Buty iz a short suckcess, but while it lastes it iz quite pretty.
"The _flour_ ov the familee," iz, alas! quite oftin a little injun.
If innersense iz onla the result ov ignoranse, it ain't enny more one
ov the vartues than buty iz; but if it iz the effek ov eddikashun it iz
the queen ov the vartues.
Vartue needs awl the enemys she haz got, tew keep her tools bright and
in order.
I never beleaved mutch in _spirits_ unless tha kum direk from Jamaka,
and then onla in small-sized ones.
"Absense ov mind;" about 2 thirds ov the humin rase are trubbled with
this kalamitee.
It taiks 2 tew maik a bargin; it ought tew taik 2 tew brake it.
Yu ma differ as mutch as yu plese about the stile ov a yung lady's
figger, but i tell yu konfidenshally, if she has got $40,000, the
figger is about as near rite as yu wil git it.
"Glory enuff for one day;" attending a kamp meeting.
Goldsmith sez, "Larn the luxury ov dewing good;" but the luxury, now a
daze, consiss in larning how tew du a leetle better.
I often hear affekshunate husbands kall their wifes "Mi Duck," i wunder
if this ain't a sli delusion tew their big bills?
LXIV.
DISIPLIN IZ EVRATHING--IN 2 PARTS.
_Part Fust_--I dont suppoze thare is enny dout about this assershun.
A man who haint got propper disiplin, iz jist about ov az mutch uze
tew hiz fellow critters az a wether cock wud be amung a parcil ov
barnyard pulletts. Injuns haint got enny disciplin, and, konsequentla,
the more injuns a man had tew run a kotton faktory with, the wus he
wud be oph. Turning a grinstone iz fust rate disiplin. If a man ov
ornary mind haint got disiplin, he bekums a lofer the fust good chanse
he gits. Thare haz bin, perhaps, a fu individoals born into the world
that did'nt want mutch disiplin--Homer, and Virgil, and Shakesper,
and sich like, if tha had bin sot to turning a grinstone it mite hav
spilt them--tha waz like Eagles, made tu fli without enny praktis.
Disiplin iz evrathing. The thurer bred Hoss wants the smoothe bit ov
disiplin--the mule wants the sled-stake disiplin.
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