The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-02-12
Poor Richards Sayings.
WITH
ANNOTATEONS BY THE LORD
DUNDREARY-
FROM "LONDON SOCIETY,""
FROM "LONDON

7 should vewy much like to get that book. L
T think if / could get it, Eat one OF those sphe!lcai-
no-rIobnlar-no that's not the Woro-crcIe-
uos ftat,s it-circuIatang libwawies u knew II
y;vns soueth4nv that went wound(-l NM II l
could only lust borrow that book from aonouImat
ting Observation-Disclosures upon my woru n0~ ! =
ivy and wead it. A doothed gooq sofr - US
In the first place, they-they re SO ho%wioly oon
t1sino-I-I always mix EN- up together. some
how when | ivy to weckomember tnem. ~ .
sides. if envy tellah was to wegulate his lne ey "
lot of proverbs, what-Wnata oeathly SoAU ="
| comfortable life he would lead!
I rpmoleckt. [ mean wemember, Wneh was
ouite a little fellah-ln pinatores, ana llkeo woer
berry lam and a lot of howid things nor tea-tueFe
was a sort of collection Of proverbs hanging up
in mr. nursery at home They belonged to our oq
nurse. Sarah l think, and she had EN- I"alneu
and Glazed. s'Poor Richards" l think she can
| al them. and she used to say-poor dearn!nat II
envy ieIlah attended to y'nlng PI iv and die
bannv ever after. However, lt-lts ve"y clear
ONE that-he couldn't have attendeu " : IL
Himself, else, how did the fellah come 10 DC rS0t
Richard? II hate a fellah tnat PweSotGSS 70 sni5
he doesn pwactice. OF %courth, II What ne salo
was TYNE. and he'd stuck to 1t, he-he- ne u uavc
hean calIed-Rich Richard Stop a mlnpte-no" 9
that /? Rich Richard Why, that would nave peen
too rich. Pwaps that's the weasoh ne P"o
heino moor. How vewy wich!
RntI rs | was saying the picture proverbs "eIe
all huntr up in our nursery, ana a more - M.
fortahIe set of makthims, you never "eau' Hoi
instance, there was
Early to bed, and early to rise,
Makes a fellah healthy, and wealthy, and WISE
don tbelieve a word of that. III tell you why.
To hegin With shealthy." When Sam and L were
ab;1dGen we were all packed off to bed about . or
no,clock lust when a tellah ought 10 De u!iihS,
and got no at six or seven-q4lte inc nlluq I q .
tbe njgbt. and pway, did that keep US Deal1ny :
On the contwawy, we were always Non or some
howw;d comnIaint or other. AS Tor mental I'LL"
nrovar1ant It's not the slighteit use in that way
fnr I twied it at Oxford. When ali the men .! my
time were sitting up weaaIhg ~ amJ Iwinkino
ayyaan tea, II went to bed-Id did, ana what was
the consequence? l don't mind telling you pu'
-i-I-was ptucked, bvoth-
ana 'i'eI ua "Snd TO lie oat hunting gewy early
Pm sure when he was homeland you Hho" Ie
: MT ox,ar Aush lust now-that Wemlnds me he>ne
borrowed a couple of ponies OF me JUST oelole ne
left England, and. strange to say, n9S 1880 So
all about it since. But l never Go0t@ ? q foIiah
ont He's such a doothed inconthequen1lol ielian
Sam is. Doorou
CRIBS (cOnfound himJ'-
sBuy what thou hest no need OIL
And ere long thou wilt sell shy necesss1ies."
..R,v what thou hast no need of. Ih~that = a
,,e,,u nice sort of mowwal maktelp-S"4 T.. Wy
fh.thatS nWGclS6lH bdS L ~ e
t - something or other that l have no need Oh
+ I hon0ht wather a neat hing latht iheds"h'
Thethey'd only just come out then. u-Huao 10y
e,,cu fellah s got one nOw-ahd s-so :
in having one any longer. bu' ~ . .al vo1 What
sort of a thing though-Tea4y. lHt>eh ~" "n"'
twas like, ov-it l-look-
cd like an umbwella--and so IL was a. umo 'e a.
eN,aeaUU-and-and-ha, ha that's the oest OF me
;,ke. hit it-it was a lot OF other Things oeth!u9'
IL the first Mace. the stick was an air gun, "nLcn
YOU could use. you know ngHe "earnot3 m 90,
It was-was'n mt rgining-and>ah9 YOU -.
H. nynhwelIa A uthtul sort of a thing al alI-
Trn is I'm told. in the-bacKwoods,a anu tnose =
of how'd places, when you hGv Mt got-you MI"
"a 1rpouIar run. Well, and then the hahu!e "as
made g iyowy-dye see? Yes, that was I'll
49, handle and twas opened, you know WIFI
a sort of a hinge, and inside was a-Wds d Plpe
case. lined with blue satinta dwothio p"e'ty - No.
Of a notion that, | always thought-p lue S Hnap
The inventor of that machine memust HdFe III
q nan of taste. i'll could only thh4 hiul ~
os, him tn bweakfast-I would, byJoVe' : y
vovs like 70 epcO wage taste, ana the nue. ltoian
>and-and all those sort OF pWetty "olN9Ii go
Well. the handle was a pipe case' ID and
nnninr sort of a m meerschaum pipe lnslue ny
- nnnher mouth piece Pom my word' now II
was n Jolly sort of 8 plpe-~e@tty oka
smoked it mytheIf, you know can lie 7
n1ne-mo, by Jove, can't; 1t anu NY ~ :
and cigawettes) But ! hear the pipe Is d stonnn nb1
~ least nv friend Bagster says so, ahe Il IN IT.,
- tnny for he bowwowed 1t one ms noin
IS soon after bought it, and he-ha' na n1e
nevaw weturned.it since. B.but tnen.ne VIII
r L. q Good indge of p~ipes-Bagster was "en'
rot wasn't all-for when you unequocu IN lo
rnIe at the end. there was ajolly pencii case anu
fvoa unsqo cd it again there was d Pi"o yns wo,
ond india wubber-and-let me see-oh yeo'1 49,
member now, if you Fquo9d IL al 1;ttle odd rem.
mnch indeed, out popped a Jolly niue 80 ~ ~
~ he snre. that wasn't m-much use without the
ink Init then; you know--t II a leiiah . ( 80
nancil. he>be doesn't want to WE WIN IN - -
r. It least no reasonable tellah would anu /
nc did 7 know a stunning dodge. 1ou-you
con have a little bottle made, WIN q golutoP'
Won know-a kind of a thort OF q Idu'eS oomPanD
;on looxnig thing; and hang 1t on your "a!cn
nboin ,;ke a charm That's not a pad idea oi mine
cnai1 n mind TO take out q patent for that
I forgot to say that about half way down inc
stick there was a place for a pen hhle. ~ q
tooth pick. and a cork screw, an 70" hnn~ IVY
=" H. ,rortI, of il was, thet, somehoW or other, J
never wanted any of them. 50 - tnlnh -
richard was wrong after all, to ten aielah 70 guy
lat no hos no need of ;iand as Tor seIllnH my hec1
!" ~ I'm dashed i'll do anything OF the klnd
NJ" no rot for P-poor Richard, mormon AM
OTHER MAN. uouo.b which
But there's one very nonsenS'1@i
says: 10 brsb,
"a b.bird in the hand is worth two IN the ouSn'
TIL the man who invented tnat p"''e" HN
have been a b~born idiot. uolvo
H. the Deuce can he tall the welatlve V-Valae
of nouItry in that pwOmlscuous manner FIJI n
noie ! have got a wobin wedb"estl III my nam v
nearly had one the other moTn'nS1 Du +he tro
"" ~ brsb are n b. bwace of patwldges; youNyou
didnnt mean to tell me hatthat wobln We1o"east
would fetch as much as q bwace OF pat"lusee ~
thsrd P.poor Richard can CANNON me III ua'
thort of a way.
Then there another: Z
~. 70 the well, Jut The pitcher a
last may be broken"
~ tbis | take to be an allerwbat is that
vard now. which means something dine" en-, iron
what it WEAKLY means? An ahe-alnga.or ~.
aI1egowv. that's it The pitcher Is q soft OF an !
a9ay and means q person. Well ma PerSou
rs 80 70 the well, it is reason that he can go !.
&c h. had he cant be bwoken. 80 hichsrue on
again. But if be WEAKLY meant a pncneriyou = :"
owbv supposing it is bwoken. the only laing
foiIab con do is to buy another. Ibey dont Coz
49, 7 dare say you could buy a sumner lG
h NE i = crown. So what's the use in making sucf
a ioIIv row about n twlne. b-or
I!.Tbose who live in glass houses siouioh' 'mo'
stones" nounat;o,
If neopIe occupy tenements of this description,
sb6uld have thought the best thing 10 say "our
rave been-''Th those who d-d0nt 1--we IN gas
ho,eee shonIdn't throw stones" linn sure II Woui
bova rnbwace a g-gwater n-numDer OF u
community psparticularly thihose little o-oiack
ouards in the sweets, who Can nevaw even "a
been in the Cwystal Palace 10 thelr hveS 10 II
!, ave- " always shyiHng things about-b,b eathly Dal
that bit you and then webound back IN IN d n lawn
wI9uG In cst a bawwid kind of game, in when
at tI5lP ptG ghs; . a Bit Of wood on the ground t In
it sins nm into the air, and, and if it doesen,t hit 70 .
. he wins, that is, he gets it back aga,n, ana =, rem u =
2 dJoes bit Won, YOU lose. that is, you lose YOU tcN
ner at least ! know do. auie
PEI nt the m most widicuious makthlm OF an lS
: nTate care of the pence and the pounds "ll las
,ore Of tbemselvs.n
: Did YOU ever hear of such nonthense!
1ftbere's one thing l hate to cawwy about WI
me it'tb coppers. Somehow or other l never ma
e but vewy few pence in my life, and those l-l.gaN
q oqav to one of th-those organ fellahs IN the save
Hstha! 1 suppcthe be bought m'monkeys
!. some other howwid thing with them II dor
"a care. l only hope l shall neyaw see any nova
b-beathly coppers again, hawwid things Fane
/ had to put them in my pocketl1 hate putin
I things in my pocket. Tn that's a sort OF I'M