I am dredful fond ov melody; and a banjo, with a negro hung tew it, will knock more sense out ov me, in one night, than i kan git back in 3 weeks. * * * * * It is a good plan tu know menny people, but tu let only a few kno yu. * * * * * I have no more respekt for those who only cater tu mi imaginashun, than I have for the man who fust invented ginger-pop. * * * * * I never knu a man ov much wisdum who could sing a song well or pla on a fiddle. * * * * * I don't kare how mutch a man talks, if he will only say it in a few wurds. * * * * * Rewards deferred make us miserable; it is jist so with punishments. When i was a boy, i had rather be licked twice than tew be postponed once. * * * * * Thare is one thing sertain: reason is more than master ov the pashuns. If this iz probably so, the man must be a phool who aint boss ov himself. * * * * * I think it reduces the stummuk ake tew holler; so i think it lessens awl kinds ov anguish, just as it does sin, by owning it. * * * * * We are awl willing tew pay more for being amused than instrukted. * * * * * How menny folks do yu serpose thare is in this world who are satisfied with things as far as they hav got? Not more than 6, i'll bet. This looks rather dusty for the rest ov the trip. * * * * * Thare aint no general rule for happiness; a man has tew be measured for his happiness, just as he does for his boots, and even then he don't alwus git a good fit. * * * * * Joy will make a man change ends quicker than sorrow. * * * * * If a yung man kant find enny thing else that he is fit for, i like tew see him carry a goold-headed cane. The top rounds ov a ladder are always the most dangerous. * * * * * I beleaf in the final salvashun ov men, but i want the privilege ov picking the men. * * * * * Thare is just this difference between a success and a failure--1/4 ov an inch. * * * * * It is a great deal easier tew beat natur than it is tew equal her--so it is easier tew bile an egg tew much, than just enuff. LXVII. THE BUZZERS. Ov awl the insekts or even animals, who occupy two legs and breathe the same kind ov air, and drink the same kind ov water that other folks do, thare is not a more distressingly bizzy and uncomfortably obnoxious one, than yure whisperer.