The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-09-29

! lay up emmy honey, norien2y money.
they seem tew be bizzy only jist for
I. the sake ov working all the time,, they
ARE alwus in as mutch ov a hurry as
tho they war going for doktor.
l suppose this uneasy world would
grind awrond on its axletree onst in
q hours, even if tharc want emmy horz
nets, hut hornets must be good for sum-
thing but kant think now what it IL.
Thare haint been a bug made yet in
vain, nor one that want a good job
Thare liz ever lots ov human men loaf
ing awrond blacksmith shops, and ci-
der mills, all over the country, that
don't seem tew be necessary for ennyf
thing but tew beg plug tobacco, and
swear, and steal watermelons, bit wi
let the cholera break out onst, and
then yu will see the wisdom tiv having
jist sich men laying around loose they
they help count.
Next tew the cockroach, who stands
tew the head, the hornet haz got the
most waste stummuk, in reference tew
the rest ov hiz boldly, than any of the
, insek populashen, and here liz another
misteryg: what on arth does a hornet.
want SO much reserved corp for :.
/ have jist thought t--tew carry his
ijavali1, in; THUS yu see; the more we
/ diskover about things the MORE we are
apt to know. -t-i,ea 4 Iua
1t is alwuz good purchase. tew pay
out our last surviving dollar for wis
dunn, and wisdum is like the MYSTERIOUS
hens egg, it amt laid in your hand;
but is laid away under, the barn, and
yu have got to, sarch for it. e ie u
The hornet is an uusoshaH kuss, he
is more naughty than he is proud; he
is q thoroughbred bug, but his breed
ing and refinement has made him like
some other folks kno ov, dissatisfied
with himself and everybody else; tod
much good breeding ackts this way
sometimes. -''' 'ii ii'''. t t4.i9 '
Hornets are long-lived-I kant state
| jist how long their lives are, but kn0i
from instinkt and observashen, that
emmy kritter, be he bug or be he devili
| who is mad all the time, and stings
every good chance he kan git, general
ly -outlives all his nabers.
The only good way tew git ut the,
exact lightning weight oy The h6rtiet;
is to tutch him, let him hit you ofice
with his javelin, and you will be will
ing to testify in court that sumbOdy
run a one tined pitchfork into yer; and
az for grit, 1 will state for the infor-
mashun ov those who haven't had as
chance tew lay in their vermin wisdum'
as freely as l hav, that one single hor-
net, who feels well, will brake up q
large camp meeting.
What the hornets do fer amuZement
il anuther question kant answer, BUT
sum of the best read, and the heaviest
thinkers amung the naturalists say tina
shav target excursions, and heave their
javeline at mark ; but don't imbibe
this assershun raw, for never knu
emmy body, so bitter at heart, az the
hornets ar, to waste blow.
Thare IL one thing that hornet duz
that will give him creddit for on my
| books he alwuz attends tn his own
bizness, ggand won't allow emmy boldly
else tew attend tu it, and what he duz
IL alwuz a good job, you never SEQ
them altering emmy thing, if they make
emmy mistakes, it IL after dark, and
aint seenu..ai = Irta-
If the hornets made haff az menny
blunders az the men do, eaven with
their javelins, everybody would laff
at them. i''f i'-' a'''
Hornets are clear in another way,
they have found out, hi trying it, that
all they can git in this world, and
Dragon, il their vittles and clothes,
and you never see one standing at the
corner NV street, with a twenty-six
intch face on bekause sum bank had
run oph and took their money with
him
In ending oph this essa, will CUM
tu a stop by concluding. that if hornets
were little more pensive, and not SO
darned peremptory with their jayelins,
they might be guilty ov less wisdum
but more charity.
But yoo kant alter bugg natur with
out splicing it fer emmy thing else, emmy
p,ora tIa,,,- VOC kan an eleDhant,s cog.