Josh Billings on Ice

of karakter and sissing hot

or a grin, or for a sorrow; ov elaastick step: thortful, but not abstrakted; pashunt

stuck up; their harness alwuz

ir dezire tew pleze, and their gr

histry ov man's necessitys iz

breeds a luv ov change, and wharever a human tr

uty ov a river tew him iz its capacity for a steambote; its sloping banks checke

ght, calkulates the stone by the perch, and sell

by conkerin heroes, and iz struk w

sea, sees the warm promise ov the grape, and forgettin the holy memrys ov th

grimace what he lacks in langwidge, spreadin a

South, from the top ov earth's mornin tew half past eleven at night, and the eve

ourns over the heathen, and iz

r enthuziasm, and fully beleafs

roast beef and hiz ansesters, Jonathan haz

azee ov frog's hind legs, Jonathan pulls

e mad vomits ov Vgesuvius, Jonathan

e phenomena tramps the world with the skeleton ov a pattent right in hiz

rom bein sandpapered, risk it

for a golden harvest; hiz sanctity iz often shrewdness, and hi

litys and charities are cerimonial dutys, and if hiz religion iz sometimes only the severitys ov a sabbath, it