Josh Billings on Ice

HADE

necromancy, in the western country. At that time I waz verry ritch and owned a house, and lot. At one corner, on mi lot, stood, or rather leaned, a tree, az awkward az a shanghi rusetor;

aple. I would hav cut it down if mi heart had bin sharp enuff; but altho i hav lived on the edge ov the wilderness for more than half

got tew be trimmed. I had four nabors near at hand; two lived upo

when i wanted enny soothsa

hese nabors, they waz alwa

them, az opportunity offered,

and take oph the head ov the tree, and then it would soon

d me, bekauze it

t certain limbs, that

ee ov that kind trimmed but one way, which he suggested in sich an unmistakabel manner,

agnosiss ov the kase, i went tew work like a hu

ade tree!) was nothing but a gaunt stick about 10 feet hi, too crooked to fa

good only az corro

ds, yu must expekt that the kindness ov their hearts iz

s pills: it iz often advisabel tew

an alwus milk a cow