Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun,; Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
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Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun,; Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882
Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
American wit and humor
If you meet the party on the Whitefish Bay road at 10 o'clock at night,
the horses are walking as quietly as oxen, and they never wake up until
coming into town, and then he pulls up the team and drives through town
like a cyclone, and when he drives up to the house the old man is on the
steps, and he thinks John must be awful tired trying to hold that team.
And he is.
It is thought by some that horses have no intelligence, but a team that
knows enough to take in a sporadic case of buggy sparking has got sense.
These teams come high, but the boys have to have them.
ADDICTED TO LIMBURG CHEESE.
During the investigation of Chief Kennedy one witness testified to
something that ought to make it hot for the chief. When men stoop to do
the things that Mr. Chapin testified to, an outraged public sentiment
has got to step in. Mr. Chapin testified--and he is a man whose word
is as good as our note--he said he met Kennedy in a street car, and his
breath smelled of limburg cheese. That is enough. Carry his remains out.
Any man who will appear in a public place, among folks, with his breath
smelling of limburg cheese, has got his opinion of us. It is simply
damnable. We can see how a man who likes limburg cheese is liable,
though he may have sworn off, to return to the mustard cup, and after
the first taste, fill his skin full of cheese, arguing that one may as
well die for an old sheep as a lamb.
It is a well known fact, agreed to by all scientists, that a single
mouthful' will tarnish an otherwise virtuous breath as much as a whole
cheese. One mouthful of cheese leads on to another, and we are prepared
to believe that if the chief smelled of cheese at all, he was full of
it.
Men cannot be too careful of cheese. If a man feels that he is going to
commit the dastardly act of eating limburg cheese, he has time to go out
to a glue factory, or a slaughter house, or the house of correction, or
some other place whose offense is rank.
The desire to eat cheese does not come upon a man suddenly, like the
desire to take a drink, or stand off a creditor, and he is not taken
possession of by the demon of appetite and pulled to the nearest saloon
by a forty horse power devil, as is the man who has the jim jams.
The cheese does its work more quietly. It whispers to him about 11
o'clock a. m., and says there is nothing like cheese. He stands it off,
and again in the afternoon the cheese takes possession of him and leads
him on step by step, by green fields, and yet he does not fall. But
about 9 o'clock p. m. the air seems full of cheese, and he smells it
wherever he goes, and finally, after resisting for ten hours, he goes
and orders a cheese sandwich.
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