The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-07-09
Josh Killings Papers.
THE COTE.

The cote IL korse WOODEN sheep. They
have split hoof and whole tail. They
have good appetite and sanguine di-
gestion. They swallo what they eat and
will eat emmy thing they kan bite. Their
moral karakters ars not polished. They
bad rather steal rotten turnip out ov a
garbage box than tew cum honestly hi q
PEEK ov oats. The male cote haz two horns
on the ridge ov his he'd, and mustash on
hiz bottom lip, and il the plug ugly of hiz
naberhood. A maskuline cote will fife
ennything. from an elephant down to hiz
! shadder on dcd wall. They strike from
their but-end, instead ov the shoulder and
are az likely tew hit, az hammer il q
nailbed. They are hi seasoned animal,
az much SO az pound of assifdity.-
They are faithful critters, and will stick
tew friend az long az he lives in a shan
ty. They kan Kline ennything but a
greasy pole, and kno the way up a rock as
natural az woodbine. They are az
certain few rise az yung ones, sum fami-
ilys are one-haff gotes and the other half
children. They are good eating when
they are young, but they leave it oph
az they git stronger. They are alwus
poor in the boldly, but phatt in the
stumick. what they eat seems to all 60 to
appetight. Yu mite az we'll agree to
phatt an injun rubber over-shoe bi filling it
with klam shells, az tew raise emmy adj
poZe membrane on the outside bust ov a
cote. A phatt cote would be literary
curiosity. They use the same dialekt as
the sheep, and the young ones speak the
language more fuently than the parents
do. Their IL only two animals ov the earth
{ that will eat tobakko-one liza man and
luther is a cote, but the cote understands
it the most, for he swallers the spit,
chaw and all The male cote, when he is
pensive, il venerable and philosophic
looking old cuss, and wouldn't make a
| bad professor of aritbmetick in some of our
colleges. They are handy at living a long
time, reaching an advanced age without
arriving at emmy definite konklusion.-
How long cote lives without giving it
up, there is no man now old enuff to tell.
Methuzeler, if hiz memory was bad on
forgetting, might give a good sized guess,
but unfortunately for science and this essa,
Methuzcler amt here. Gotes will live in
emmy klimate, and on emmy vittles, except
tau-bark, and if they ever cum to square
death, it is q profound sekret, in the hands
of few, tS this day. wouldn't like to
beleave emmy man under oath who had
ever seen a fnaskuline cote actually die,
and stay so. Speakingo of Methuzeler, puts
me in mind ov the faekt, if man should
liv now daze az mulch az be did, he would
have to hay an addishun built onto the
back ov hiz head to sto away things into.
The female cote il either the mother, or
sister or couzzin ov the male cote, ackor-.
ding tew the prevailing circumstances in
the case, or else labor under delusion,
forget witch. They give milk intuitively,
about quart, before it IL watered, in
twelve hours, which il the subjeckt oy
nourishment, in various ways. This milk,
which IL extrakted from the female cote,
il excellent tew finish up yung ones on,
but is apt to make them bellycose and
fightful. 1t il not unkomon for babe,
! while inhalipg this pugnashus fluid, to let