The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-01-30
way, and this is the cause, why busseIs has

want to get a favor of any thing human it
amt amiss TO put your big toes and your
knees and elbows and nose agin their'n fust
so you don't do it too ruff, cause why? cause
pleasure is always increased by the pain that
was felt afore it-and after you've made them
Uneasy that way jest whallop right over spoon
ey, and give 'em a close fit and say 81 am
very sorry, ! beg a thousand pardons, | was
kind Of dozin and dreamin and didn't rally
know what | was doin'' and arter that per
tend to be sleepin, but always keep one
blinker up and watch their motions and If
they turn, you tn IN toe, and arter little they'll
conclude that you must be a kind good crit
ter-cause why? cause it seems SO material
like for you to lie spoony with them, and
whenever they conclude that is material, you
may depend oil gettin any favor you ak,
cause all nature likes natur but hates bus
sells and every thing else that's artificial
whether its founded on natur or not.
huOu oPOOuCytu 10 uOuG up SuuSs u tCf
er fails. You no doubt remember the two
notable instances mentioned by Col. Slick.
He says "Daniel Webster slept with the
President all the time he was TO Slickvil!e
and he made him Secretary of State; and
Deacon Westfall, slept with Van Buren, at
Alligators Lick, and talked Lin over 10 make
: him Post Master General.n
Now Webster succeeded-cause why 2
why he laid spooney, but the Deacon failed
cause why? caase he dident lay spooney.-
, But it warnt his fault--he knowed how, but
, Van Buren, wouldn't stand it. Van Buren,
] you know is a short man and a mighty nice
ly musk, if its the right sort and brought
from forrin parts. Well the Deacon was a
I very tall man-six feet 4-and he couldn't
1 make a good spooney TO Van without leavir
t his own shoulders naked (and il was too tar
nal cold for that) or kiverin Vans head up
e and the domestic manufactured musk thai
e the Deacon had about him made Van so al
K fired narvus and Uneasy that he couldn't
stand bein kivered up.
Now our text must be understood not only
literally but also metaphorically--it is apple
y cable to human intercourse in gineral, wheth
e er lynn sittin' standin, walking or ridin' AM
is the same thing in substance as that advice
u that the old man GIN DR.. Franklin--(1stoop
e says he 'sas you 60 through the world ant
you'll save yourself many a hard knocks
n only its expressed in strikener and beaul.
is fuller language.
Let US now apply these remarks TO you
own case-you have had your toes and knee
and elbows and nose agin the new Pc:
masters iisi about enough to make his dal
der curl up a lettle at one eend, like cypres
shingles on the south side of a house in a ht
K day, and this is iist the pint to make spooI
r ey agreeable. Now jist turn spooney an
?? lay his dander and he'll feel so nice an
or comfortable-it will be jist like a war
'y blanket after a cold bath and he'll fair
e. sweat drops of kindness. 1t don't make Il
e sort of difference if he is a focofoco, for
Wing and a l%ocofoco can lie spooney jist
we'll as gold spoon and an iron one.
'tt Behold a certain learned Judge and a &c
IN tain foreign Minister, what a snug fit the
Ii made and behold the result.
1T That are Newtonal or nuteral paper as yc
&c call it, amt no more of an obstacle in you
NC way nor a hedge to a sarpent. That Newto
VI al is a trying TO spooney with both parti
and he lies rightion his back, so he don't
- neither of them but jist touches the corne
er between the touchin pints by contrast.
ne 1t makes them feel jist like the beginin of
Us congestive fever, hot and cold all over
yS spots and streaked all over and awful o
comfortable. Therefore take comfort. III
o' new postmaster amt ~obstroperous but is n
In truly kind hearted charitable and easily CO
oil ciliated, pervided you do the thing nice a
don't lay ON the soft sawder too thick. HI
lis maturity easy to spooney with, and he is NJ
Ia too far advanced in years to put on busst
he or any other artificial incumbrance to reno
II It onpractible. | have wrote most TOO mu
but feelin a kind of yearnin' for you | felt
my duty to thoroughly impress you with {
ne. importance of the maxim contained in c