If yu hav enny reasonable douts about cheatin yure moste intimate
friends, and aint willing tew be seen in low grogerys on lecktion daze,
buying votes with cheap whiska and kounterfit munny, and dont expek tew
buy elekshun, and then sell yure principles tew git even; if yu kant go
this, and tend awl the churches near yu in rotashun, and hear folks sa,
“What an ornyment to sosiety he iz!” i sa, if yu kant go all this
without blushing, yu will ov course adopt the blakleg, and gain an
honest living bi cheatin on the square.
Yung men yu will awl detek in this lekture a frendla feeling towards yu
bi the author, and if yu foller the direckshuns laid down above, yu wil
diskiver the wiggling ov yure genius, in time perhaps, tew saive
yureselfs from cuming the gove nor ov sum state, when natur kindly
ramified yu for a carpenter and jiner.
FEMALE REMARKS.
Dear Girls, are yu in sarch ov a husband?
This is a pumper, and y u are not required tew say “Yes” out loud, but
are expekted tew throw yure eyes down onto the earth, az tho yu waz
looking for a pin, and reply tew the interrogatory, with a kind ov
draud-in sigh, az tho yu waz eating an oyster, juice and all, off from
the half shell.
Not tew press so tender a theme untill it bekums a thorn in the flesh,
we will presume (tew avoid argument) that yu are on the look-out for
sumthing in the male line tew boost yu in the up-hill ov life, and tew
keep hiz eye on the britching when yu begin tew go down the other side
of the mountain. Let me give yu sum small chunks ov advice how tew spot
yure fewter hussband:
1. The man who iz jellous ov every little attenshun which yu git from
sum other fellow, yu will find, after yu are married tu him, luvs
himself more than he duz yu, and what yu mistook for solissitude, yu
will diskover, has changed into indifference. Jellousy isn’t a
heart-diseaze; it is a liver-komplaint.
2. A mustash is not indispensible; it iz only a little more hair, and iz
a good deal like moss and other excressences--often duz the best on sile
that won’t raize ennything else. Don’t forgit that thoze things which yu
admire in a phellow before marriage, yu will probably hav tew admire in
a hussband after, and a mustash will git tew be very weak diet after a
long time.
3. If hussbands could be took on trial, az irish-cooks are, two-thirds
ov them would probably be returned; but thare don’t seem tew be enny law
for this. Tharefore, girls, yu will see that after yu git a man, yu hav
got tew keep him, even if yu loose on him. Consequently, if yu hav got
enny kold vitles in the house, try him on them, once in a while, during
courting season, and if he swallers them well, and sez he will take sum
more, he is a man who, when blue Monday cums will wash well.
4. Don’t marry a pheller who iz alwus a-telling how hiz mother duz
things. It iz az hard tew suit these men as it iz tew wean a yung one.
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