Category: Humour
Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings
Tred litely, dear reader, for the ^way iz ruff. This book waz got up tew sell, but if it don't prove tew be a sell, I shan't worry about it.
Chapters
6. Part 6
Good Lord, deliver us from the Falt finder, one ov yure kronick grunters, i mean. Theze kind ov humin critters are alwuss full ov self consait; if tha waz humble and wud dam the...
5. Part 5"Man was made tew mourn," so warbled Burns, "and woman was made tew kiss," so warbles Billings. One ov these centiments haz bin alreddy immortalised, and the other i intend shal...
3. Part 3Hard Road.--Yure essa has sum good hits intu it, but iz not jis the thing for a religus nuzepaper, like ours; send it tu "Wilkes Spirit," a paper that knows how tu talk hoss. I...
4. Part 4"_Slavery, ordained ov God_," _bi A. D. P._--This produckshion we cant accept. We are bound in our insuranse polisy not tew hav on hand "enny article extra hazardus on akount ov...
2. Part 2FRIEND ELIAS:--You ask me menny questions about the draft that bothers me. It iz curis how it duz act, but it waz jist so in scripter times, "2 wimmin waz at a mill a grinding (...
7. Part 7_Part Fust_--I dont suppoze thare is enny dout about this assershun. A man who haint got propper disiplin, iz jist about ov az mutch uze tew hiz fellow critters az a wether cock...
8. Part 8_Dear Doktor Hirsute_:--I reseaved a tin cup ov yure "Hair purswader," also a bottle ov yure "Salvashum Bitters", bi express, for which, I express my thanks. The greenbak, which...
1. Part 1Tred litely, dear reader, for the ^way iz ruff. This book waz got up tew sell, but if it don't prove tew be a sell, I shan't worry about it.
9. Part 9THE SCALP HUNTERS.-- A romance. 12mo. cloth, $1.50 THE RIFLE RANGERS.-- do. do. $1.50 THE TIGER HUNTER.-- do. do. $1.50 OSCEOLA, THE SEMINOLE.-- do. do. $1.50 THE WAR TRAIL.-- d...