Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-07-08
TO . THE SEXTON /.
APPEL ron ARE TO THE sExrAsr or THE Iotp
ssIN --H n 4 BRIcK lMRErIaoUsE. & o W0kB

o sExrANT of the meetinouse, wich sweeps n
And dnsts, or Is supposed tool and makes
fiers, yrr,iW % h,10-.iargce ar.f .rtd .oi4O
And lites the gass, and sumtitnes leaves screw
loose, A.. =
in wich Case ii smells orful, worse than lamp
And wiring the Bel and .toles It when men dyes
to the grief of suryivin pardners, and sweeps
'pathes
And for the servases gifts 800 per annum,
Wicb them, that thinksideer, let EN- try it ID :
Getn up, befoar star-lite in all wethers and
Kindlin fiers when the wether is as cold 90,
As zero, and like as not grean wood tor kind
wouldn't be hired to do 1t for no some
But o Sextantl there are I kerfnoddity -ma-t
Wich s more than gold, wich doant cost nothin,
Worth more. than anything exsep the Sole ol
mean pewer Are, sextant, 1 mean pewer Are !
o it is plenty, out of dores, SO plenty it doanl
What on airth to dew with itself, but hys about
Scaterin leavs and bloin Of men hats; '''.5,.
in short its Jest FIRE as are out ,dores
But o sextant, in our church Its scarce as piety,
scarce as bank bills wen agpts beg for mis-.
chuns,
WITCH sum say is pretty oaen CANT nothln to
Wat / give ,aint nothin. to nobody but sextant,
shet 500 men, wimmen and children, ~
Speshally the latter, up in a lite place, .'
Some has bad breths, none aipt 2 swete,
Some is feyery, some is scroflus, some has bad
ln teath, ....... n1r. u9 sb1.u ~ d.
And some haint none, and some amt over eileen;
But every / on EN- breethes in & out and on.
and in, ....... ,.s'cX lnra irarirf -r ,il'
Say 80 times mint. or million and hall
breths an our, .........,.9. ~ ft,ltu.
Now how long win church full Of are last at
that rate, '-'i
/ ask you, say Is minits'I and then watts to be
odid2 .......... - li.3 .'sass 'st7l;
Why then they must brethe it all over agin, .,
and then agih, and SO on, till each has took II
AT least 10 times, and let it up agin, and yats
The same indfyidible don't have the priyeHdgs
of brethen his own are, and no ones else -.
Each one must take watever comes to him. y
sextant, doant you no our lungs is bellusses,
to blow the fer of life, and keep it from -
gotr 9u, and how can bellusses bio without
Aad aipt wind are put it to your copcheps.
Are is the same to US as milk to babies, Ea
Or watar is to fish, or pendlnas to cbr- -
Or roots y arbs unto an injun Doctor,
Or little pills unto an ofnepath, ,t,.t,o,.-..
Or boys to garls. Are is for US to brethe, be,aa
Wsts Pola Watts Pollus2 to sinners who are
Ded for want Of breth? why, sextant, when we
dye r7' 'Ials ,in 'n'fe,t s es~.7i
Its only COZ we cant brethe no nlore-thats all,
And now, o sextant, let me beg of you '.lo
2 let little are into our church, .' i5 a
(Pewer are Is sertin proper for the pews) o.
And do 1t weak days and Sundays tew-
1t aint mach trouble-only make hole .-
And the are will come in of itself; 'Hi iaa.
Ut luvs to come in WHARF it can get warm;
And o how it will warm the people up Z, .e~
And sperrit up the preecher. and stop garps,
And yawns and fights as effectooal
AS wind on theTdrY Boans the Profit tells Of