Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-14
gatllnrors Sending.
Home-bred Proverbs.

The "ssyiDgs" Of Josh Billings recently
published, contain some true home. bred pro-
verbs, which, although expressed in dia-
lsct and style that we hold in abomination,
still are worth reading. We give few OF
them: 4-.->-... Sd. .....-..-. ....
l argy in this way, # a man is right he
can't be too radikal; if he is rong he kant
be COO conservatiff. -
1t is highly important, when man makes
up his minde tew bekum a rasksll, that be
should examine hisself closely, and see if
he aint better CONSTRUCTED for phool.
If there was nothing but truth in this
w1rld, fool would stand just as good a
chanse az wize man.
When feller gifts goiu down hill, it
dus seem as tho evry thing had bin creased
for the okashun.
Thare are CRATE multitude ov individ.
uals who are like blind mules, anxious e.
nough to kick, but kant tell |hare.
EsLarge bodys move slo, this ere proverb
don't apply tn lies, for the bigger tha ar the
faster tina 60.
There is 2 things in this life for which
we are never fully prepared, and that liz
twins.
Marin for love ma be little risky, but
it is very honest
We are ap tn hate them who wont take
our advise, and despise them who do.
Ginowine proverbs ar like good kambrick
needles-sbort, sharp and shiny.
If yu want tew git sure crop, and big
yield for the seed, SOW wild oats.
Most ov the advise we reseave from others
IL not so mutch an evidence of their affeck
shun for us, as it il an evidence of their af
feekshun for themselves.
"Honesta is the best policy" but don't
take my word for it, Try it.
Gravity is very often mistakin for wis.,
dunn, but there is as much difference as
tbare is between a glide board and the man
who maid it.
What man spends in this life, be saves;
what he don't git, want meut for him, and
what ne saves, ne Ioozes.
Wise mer don't expeck tn do away with
the vissistudes ov life, tia only expeck to
blunt the edge ov them.
The prinsipal difference between luxury
and necessary iz the prise.
Rise arly, work hard and late, live on
what you kant sell, give nothin ava, and if
yu don't die ritch, and 60 tn the devil, yu
may sue me for damages.
N. B.-The above remarks are not inten.
ded as personel.
Real happiness don't consist so much in
what man don't hav, as it duz in what he
don't want.
A man running for offs puts me in mind
ov dog that's lost-he smells oV everybody
he meets and wags hisself all over.
1t iz dreadful eazy to be pbool-a man
kan be one and not knowit
VENeEANoE.-sDo you ever 60 to even
ing parties ? .-...
NO. said my friend Tom. Il used to but
Pm cured
sHow 7" said l, anxious to learn his
experience.
why, you see, said Tom feelingly, i
went to one some years back and fell in love
with beautiful girl. courted her like q
trump, and I thought had her sure, when
she eloped with tailor. But | swore ven
geance, and took it. | pasronised the rob-
ber of my happiness, and ordered full
suit of clothes, regardless of expense.
But your veDgeanceT P said l.
i struck the tailor in The most vital part.
1 never paid that bill But those Internal
clothes were the cause of all my future mis.
fortunes-that they were.'
How SO, said with smile of compass
sion.
wearing them / captivated my present
wife She TOLD me so, and | haV'nt had a
happy day since. But I am bound to be
square with that wre.ched tailor in the long
run I've left him legacy, ou condition
that he marries my widow
Surp1DAN aNnHIs soN Tom -Sheridap