The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-11-07
Josh Billing. In the Editor. Chair.
HIS ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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Fred-You amt obliged to ask . gall
mother if yu ma 60 home with her from
Partee; git the gals endorsement and "a
in; 1t is proper enough to ask her to tn K,
yure arm, but yu hant got no rite to pu,
yure arm round her waste, unles WI mee
Bear on the rode, and then yu are bound
to take yure arm away jest as soon as the
Bear gifts safely by.
Whip-Yu are rite mules live to a lona
age; I've known them myself to live one
hundred years, aAd not half tri Yu are
also rite about their being sure footed; I've
known them to kick q man twice in q sec
ond, ten feet oph. ......
Gertrude-Yure inquiry stumps me
The more think on it. the more | cant
tell. As near az can rex olek now think
don't kno. Much might be eed both
Was, and neither wa be rite Upon the
whole, rather rekon l wud, or i wudent
jist as thought best or otherwise
Plutark-fu're mistaken; the Shaker.
don't marry. II yung Shakers fall in luv
tha Are sot 70 wedding onions. and it kures
them forthvithly. kant tell yu now how
much it dus ko.t 70 iine the Shakers. but
believe the expense used to be, inklud-
ing having yure hair cut and farming how
to danse. about So.
Sportsman-Yure inquiry is not egzactly
IN my line, but haste to repli, as fol'Ors,
to wit: The rite length to cut oph a dog s
tail has never yit been fully discovered,
but it is undoubtedly somewhere back Nv
his ears, provided yu git the dog S consent
n. 3. 1t amt absolutely necessary the
dogs consent should De ia writeing
Kate think Lord Birou was the au-
thor ov the lines w speak ov; twas either
him or twas Capt. Kidd, one or tother
Biron was dreadful Timber at riteing pntri,
30 was Kidd, aud Biron was the iiuabsrest
He wg!rEs sreRT.
Idu consider tnuskeeters
The mo -ts peskv all Gods ereeters.
hav finally k;>tchedi. have bin like
q lam, led sudden - the siauter, and had
mi blood sucked out ov ue. as though u
was only sweet slider, anS belonged Ia
somebody else ! am 3 H.aI ov s'eaIe, tu',
low. and behold there ain piece IN me
but what IL bi, and pucker@d ana tore
When mu,keeters whisper ia yure ear
The devils angels are lowering near.
! retired last nj .bt to rest at tho usual
time, on the isf, side uv me, and about
fee, adjacent waz the side ov the hous. ou
the south side ov me, and about . feet
adjacent la mi wife. ! dropt ~ sleep Ms a
snow fake duz on the buzzum OF a siivery
Lake (i have faint idee that :hIs last
sentence for luviane... can be beat ham
dy) dreamed good s!z-i hot dream.
II felt like tn. breath oT u KAns!a This.ei.
Arouna rni he'd iri.ng IL whissell.
awoke.
The toom wuz fail ov yells aud screams
re-pon.iv dashed wildly across the
room lii lite. harked one ov ny
moste reliable harks Awi wuz stili-stili
az q crow nest iu the dead Nv winter.
gazed a gaze, az Tho l ~az triing I'll tbred
the rony end Ov a k;.gnLrik n"adel. Ava
IN the distance soiiiarA, alone, clos up IL
the ceiling, chawins hiz cud, sot little
grey cuss dipped koarss towel into
basin oy water aud wrung it out. krePt
up under the little grey cuss-i TUX ain,
aud fired
And hi, tie .pn:
Where the little grey cuss had sot.
Awl wus still sgin. onlighted the kan
dle-and soug ght mi couch.
slep; agia, onla As the vartuous sleep
Soouiy alas too soonly A.
KosKLUDED IL OR NIX