The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-11-20
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Nstral Hissory-snails, Angle Worms,
fo TEsetuds.

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Nstral Hissory-snails, Angle Worms,
.'o Trsetuds.
SnGils are a kind of amphibious
oysters born on land, Of reputable
parents; but able tew live for a time
under water if circumstances seem to
require it
They live in an earthsn house, not
unlike, in design, a freman's cap.
Thare IL two kind ov sDsils, the hard
shell and the soft shell The soft shell
resemble a piece of calls liver, cut
rounding, and gifted with crawl
This calm and innocent critter IL Ov
no moral or phisikal power, not sz We
know ov, and il it wasn't for the mis-
terious knowledge ov Providence, "Who
doeth all things well, it would make
foreordained yankee sweat teB guess
jist what they was dedikated to.
In sum fOrrin parts they are ct for
food, but it would take a CRATE deal Ov
pepper sass to lokate them in nj STUN
muk and keep them thare.
The soft snail IL a slippery cuss, free
from bones, and slo gated, travelling
about six inches in cool day, and
makes it his home WHARF things arc
damp.
They are oy asweet disposishuu, and
don't git mad and tare up the morning
paper if things dOu't happen to be jist
so.
They liv on what would otherwise
be wasted, which speaks well for the
ekouemy oy the snail
The hard shell snail seldom leaves
home, and when they do, they don't
lock up their house and put the key
under the door mat but take heir
house with them on their backs. Thare
is no house bigg enuff for snaiIs; the
snails understand this, aud don't take
ennyboddy tew board with them and
kick up muses..
AWl animals are sound on thisidenti-
kal gooser; they don't never bid a
house that they kant FILL
Here end the natral snail.
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Augleworms are ov artb, arthy, and
crawl for living. They liv in rich
ground ground that won't raise angle
worms won't raizs eunythiDg else, and
where sugleworms rejoice, corn is sure
to be bully. If W want your angle-
worms ov emmy size, yon manure your
sile, There amt nothing on arth more
miserable tew ponder over and weep
about than a half-starved angleworln.
AngleWorms are a sure crop on good
sile, and handy tew hoe, for they plant
and harvest themselfs. They don't
take up much room in the ground, aud
ere ez kind to children ez a piece of red
tape.
It il ssd by the natuFalisits that
angleworm lie, rubbed on the rear oy
the neck, win kure a man ov the lies.
I don't beleave this, unless it kills the
man. Death il the only reliable heal
for Icing that has bin discovered yet
When heing gifts into a mans blood,
the only way to git it out is to drain
him dry. 10 .re
Angleworms are used 81 an article Of
diet to ketch fish with; they are handy
tew put onto hook, and handy to take
oph, az emmy body knows who has
straddled a saw log and fished for daice
all day long Sunday in a mill pond.
Old fishermen alwus carry their
worms in their mouth.
AngleWorms live in round hole,
which they fit like a gimblet and are
different from aul other cTeeps that l
know ov, for they slwus back into their
holes.
Here the natural angleworm ends.
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Treetuds are the only tuds oy aul the
tud family who can kline tree.
How they do it IL an unfsthOmable
mystery-almost equal tew the milk in
the koker nut.
Philosophers aWl agree that the mix
is put into the koker nut. and then the
hole il neatly plugged up, but who the
fellow IL who duz it the philosophers
are honest enuff, for a wonder, tew adj
nit they kant tell.
I am glad there IL one man living
who is smart enutf tew beat the phiIoso.
piers, for they are alwus a sticking
their olfaktory into everything, aud
often make themselves sick for a week,
giving reasons for things that they don't
understand.
I am afraid it viii go hard with the
philosophers in the day oy Judgment.
The treetud is both male and female,
but not both tew once; the female don't
climb trees, for obvious reasons.
When treetud is on a tree, they
conform teW the customs oy the trees
looking and ackting Just ike the tree.
This shows good breeding, if nothing
more.
Treetnds are good stiddy singers,
but they hav rather more musk than
their voices have been cult
vated tew much; cultivashun spiles
melody for me; l simply Tespekt art,
but | worship and weep with natur.
About sll that kan be said of these
insekts IL, that they are harmless para
sites, whose chief ambishun IL tew
kline tree, and be mistaken for 3
part oy II.
Here naturally ends the treetud.
Agriculture in Germany.
From the special German corrasnon.