The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-06-01
Los, BILLINGS on tie Gotc.

The cote is a kOarse wolled sheep.
They have split hoof and whole
tail.
They have u good appetite and sam
guine digestion.
They SwaIlO what they eat and will
eat ennything they kan bite.
Their moral karakters are not pol
iShed; they had rather steal rotor
turnip out of Il garbage box than tew
cum honestly hi pek ov oats.
The male cote haz two horns on the
ridge Ov6SiZ ned. and Il Enustach on hiz
bottom lip. and IL the plug ugly Ov hiz
nabarhOod.
a MASCULINE cote will fife ennything
from an elephant down to hiE shadder
on ded wall.
They strike from their but-end. in
sted Ov the shoulder, and are az likely
teW hit, az Il hammer IL q nailhed.
They are hi seasoned animal, as
much SO az u pound ov assifidity.
They are faithful critters, and viii
stick lew "a friend az long IA he lives in
Il shantJ.
They kan Kline ennything but a
greast pole, and kno the way up rock
az natural az IL WOOdbine.
They are az certain tew raise as yung
ones, sum tamilyS are half Rotes and
the other half children. They are good
eating when they are yung, 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 so to aPpetight. Yu mite
az we'll agree tVw phatt an znjun-rub-
Der Over-shoe hi filling it with klam
shells, uH few ralse emmy aulpOze mem
brane on the outside bust Ov cote.
A phntt cote would be a literary Gu.
riOSity.
They use the same DIALECT az the
sheep, and the young ones speak the
language more huently than the pa
rientS do.
There liz only two animals ov the
earth that will eat tobakko-one liz a
man ana luther cote, but the cote un
i erst&nds it the most, for he swallers
the spit, Chaw and all.
The male Sote, when he il pensiv, il
n venerable and philosophic looking old
Cuss, and Wouldn't make a bad pro.
lessor Nv arithmetick in sum oV our
colleges.
They arc handy at living a long time
reaching AN advanced age without ar
rIvin: Az onny definite konklusion.
How long Il Sote lives without giving
ii up, there liz no man now old enuff tew
tell.
MethuzeIer, if his memory was bad
~ iorgitting, mite give II good sized
guess, but unfortunately for science and
THIS eSsa, Methu"eler amt here.
Gotes will live in emmy klimate, and
NAG1-CS1 cAC0pL s. anu IL
tney ever cum to square death, it liz
profound sekret, III the hands of u
few, TO this day.
wouldn't like tew beleaye amy man
under oath who had ever seen a masku-
line cote acktually die. and stavs
Speaking ov Methuzler, puts me- in
mind ov the fackt, if a man should 1i1
now daZe az mulch az he did. and 0ni1
hav one eye tew see things with, Ia
would hay to hav an nddishun huiit
onto the back ov hiz head tew sto away
things into.
The female cote il either the mother.
or sister, or cuZzin ov the male Sote'
ackording tew the prevailing circum-
stansis in the case, or else labor under
a delusion, forget witch.
They Civ milk intutively about
quart, before it il watered, in twelve
hours, which IL the subjickt ov nourish-
ment. in various ways.
This milk, which il extrakted from
the female cote, il excellent tew finish
up yuug ones on, but is apt to make
them beIIycose and fghtful.
1t il not unkOmon for a babe, while
inhaling this pugnashus fluid, to let
Oph his lett colleckshun or digget and
ketch the nurse on the pinnakle ov the
smeller, and tap it for claret.
This il kommon fakt among Irish
babes, and explains the reazon viii, in
after life, these same babes makes such
brilliant hits.
In writing the history oY the male and