Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 41025-h.htm or 41025-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41025/41025-h/41025-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41025/41025-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/joshbillingsonic00bill JOSH BILLINGS ON ICE, And Other Things. * * * * * _A NEW COMIC WORK_ JUST PUBLISHED, UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME, ENTITLED Josh Billings, His Book. WITH TWELVE COMIC ILLUSTRATIONS. [Symbol: Asterism] Copies sent by mail free of postage, on receipt of price, $1.50 by G. W. CARLETON & CO., Publishers. New York. * * * * * [Illustration: Josh Billings visits the new Skating Pond, and witnesses a rather interesting accident, which he describes as "a living lovely mass ov disastrous skirt and tapring ankle."--_See page 12._] JOSH BILLINGS ON ICE, And Other Things. With Comic Illustrations by J. H. Howard. NEW YORK: Carleton, Publisher, Madison Square. London: S. Low, Son & Co. M DCCC LXX. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1868, by G. W. Carleton & Co., In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. THIS BOOK IZ DEDICATED TO AMAZI BARBOUR, TEW LIQUIDATE A DET OV $17-50/100 THAT I OWED HIM. JOSH BILLINGS. CONTENTS. PAGE I.--JOSH ON ICE 11 II.--SUM NATRAL HISTORY 14 III.--LIVE YANKEES 20 IV.--LINCH PINS 23 V.--GOOSE TALK 26 VI.--JOSH BILLINGS: HIZ SHADE TREE 28 VII.--JOSH CORRESPONDS FREELY WITH 3 FELLOWS 31 VIII.--MONOGRAFFS 36 IX.--HONESTA IS THE BEST POLICY 39 X.--GREAT AGRIKULTURAL HOSS-TROTT 42 XI.--JOSH BILLINGS DEFINES HIS POSITION 46 XII.--COLD PIECES 47 XIII.--LETTER FROM JOSH BILLINGS 50 XIV.--WISDOM CHUNKS 54 XV.--BILLIARDS 58 XVI.--JOSH BILLINGS "RIZES" 60 XVII.--BILLINGS ON PILLS 63 XVIII.--JOSH IN SARATOGA 66 XIX.--SUM VEGETABLE HISTORY 72