The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-11-05
TIIEGATE CITY

The Josh Billings Papers kissssg
hav written esssys on kissing before fhi,
/ one, and they didn't satisfy me, nor dew
Think this che will, for the more man IN
dertaaes tew tell about KRIS ihe more he
will reduce his ignorance TO science.
Ia kant analze = kiss emmy more than yu
kan the breath ov -four. Yu kant tell
what makes kiss taste so good emmy more
than yu kan peach.
Envy man whc kan SCI down, where it is
cool, and tell b kiss tastes, haint got
knot hole haz. such phslso wouldn't hest
tate tew describe Paradise us a fusl race place
for gsrdin ssss
The only way tew describe kiss is tev
tax. one, and then set down awl alone, out
ov the draft, and smack yare lips.
II you kant satisfy yureseif how . kiss
tastes without taking another one how on
arth kan VI define it tew the next man?
hav heard writers talk about the essta,ick
bliss thare WAS in q kiss, and they really
seemed iew think they knew awI about il.
but these are the same kind oy folks who
persplre aud kry when they read poetry, and
then fall iew writing some ov their own, and
think they have found out how.
| want it understood that am talking a.
bout pure emotional kissing. tina, is born in
the heart, and drs tew the iips, Ike a hum
ming bird tew her roost.
am not talking about your lazy, milk and
molasscs kissing, that daobs The face Of en-
ny body, nor your savage bite that goes a.
round like q roaring lion, IN search Of sum
thing 10 eat
Kissing an unwilling pair ov lips IL az
mean viktory az robbin bird 8 nest, and
kissing too willing ones IL about as unira-
grant recreation az making boquets out Of
dandeliops.
The kind ov kissing that am talking a.
bout IL the kind that must do it or spiie
III you sarch the rekords ever 80 lively,
you kant find the author ov the fust kiss
kissing, like much other good things IL
anonymous.
But thar IL such natnr in it, stitch a world
ov language without words, such hean ov
pathos without fuss, SC much honey and 80
little water, so cheap, so sudden and SO neat
q mode of striking up an acquaintance, that
consider it good purchase that Adam
give and got the fust Kiss.
Who kan imagin greater lump ov earth
ly bliss, reduced tew finer thing than kiss
ing the only woman on earth, in the garden
ov Eden.
Adam wasn't the man, don't believe, to
pass SIGH hand.
emmy body kan date kissing further back, | |
would like to see them do It,
don't know whether the cid stock phil
,sophers ever kisst emmy body or not, If ihey
lid they probably did it like drafting the
rem on black board, more for the purpose
u proving something else.
do hate to see this delightful lnvigora-
ing beverage adulterated, II is nektar Tor
he gods, but | am often obliged to stand
Ill and see kissing did, aud not say q word,
nat haint got emmy more novelty, nor
Meaning in it, than throwing stones tew
Dark.
] saw two hayden adys kiss yesterday on /,
be north side OF the Union Square, ) times
! less than 10 mnntes; they hlst every time
icy bid each other farewell, and then i'm.
thought of sumthipg else they a
admit sed. couldnt tell for the life of me !
neither the kissing waz the effekt oy what !
icy sed; or what they sed waz the etFekt ov
lie kissing. 1t waz a which and tother
Gene. /,
Cross matched kissing IL undoubtedly the
rength OF the grain. Ii IL trew, there IL
0 starta regulashun against two iemai es kis-
ng each other: but ! don't think thare IL
uch pardon for it. unless it IL done TO keep :
'ols in order; and two men kissing each !,
her IS prima face evidence ov dead
aatery.
Kissing that passes from parent to child "
I'd back agin, seems tew be az necessary AZ
linpasters to do Dizziness with and ks y
ng that husbands give and lake IL simply II
lthering ripe fruit from ones own plum
ee that would otherwise drop oph or be
Glen.
Therefore am driv tev konklude tew git
It Nv the corner thst mi rem rks hay chased
e into, that the lie kiss is only te~ be
ID once Ia pheio's ife, in the original
.ckage, and that is when
Not tew waste the time oy the reader, !
v thought best not tew finish the abuv sem
nee, hoping that thare amt no person ov
cd ednkashun and decent memory but wi at .
n reckolekt the time which refer to, will q
/ amy ny mi helm