"Shut Nu Ingland out in the cold!"--i should as soon think ov shutting the cold out ov Nu England. * * * * * I luv tu meet an old feller ov 70 on the rode, hanging on tu a pare ov trotters. Old fellers! don't give up yure pull, till yure obliged tew. * * * * * Thare ain't mutch virgin virtchew in this world; it is purty mutch aul Magdalen. * * * * * The trew province ov economy is tu see how mutch munny we kan liv the clussest on. * * * * * The sudden ritch quite often find themselfs in the same ficks that mullatters are--just above what they started from, and just belo what they started for. * * * * * He who draws his experience from the past iz alwus a man, and he who draws his experience from the futur iz always a child. * * * * * If yu kant git good clothes and eddicashun too, git the clothes. * * * * * Say "How are ye" tew everyboddy. * * * * * If yu argy, alwus git beet. XXXIV. JOSH CORRESPONDS. _Jenkins_--Yure letter is full ov very foolish questions, but sum ov them are worth answering. I kant tell whether dogs are born with a bob-tail on them, or whether they ain't, but i am inclined tew think they am. I think they am, bekause I never see enny dogs' tails laying around loose, without enny dog to them. But thare is one thing that bothers me too, and that is, i kant see why it aint just as easy for a dog tew be born with a whole tail on him as with a bob piece, when he is about it; still, if the dog has got tew be skant sumwhare, perhaps it is good judgment tew take it oph on the longest end. The more we sarch these things, Jenkins, the more curerisser they am. Natur don't dew ennything without sum good reason of her own. If she raises a bob-tailed dog, she don't dew it for fun, but for the dog's welfair; perhaps the dog, if he had bin borned with a whole tail, might hav had it bit oph by a sheep or sumthing. So yu see, Jenkins, thare is figureing in aul these things. As i told yu in mi last letter, you must study natur and wisdum more, and then yu won't hav tew ask so menny phoolish questions. A bob-tailed dog aint half so apt tew hav the tiphus fever as a long-tailed dog is--this stands tew reason. A long-tailed dog kan wag more than a bob-tailed dog kan; but wagging ov aul kinds, is about played out. If i should ever git able tew keep a dog, i should selekt a bob-tailed one, for two reasons. One is, yu git more dog and less tail; and the other is, thare aint no good place for the boys tew hitch a tin pail onto them behind.