Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-08-12

y
ing to get down cellar into their house.
Just then along cum loafng grass
hopper, smoking pipe, and singing,
"Begone dull care, pray thee begone
from me-" and spieing the old aunt, Civ
ing orders tew the yung aunts, he stopped
to have talk with her.
"Good morning, old mother Industry,
good morning p said the grassbug. "a
fine cernel Of wheat that, yu are rollin
in"
"Have yu heard the CRATE newse
"Dredful sharp frost last night!
"Winter will soon set in recken!
II herd the owls hute last night
"Terribel bad acksident on the Harlem
road yesterday 1870.
"When dew yu think specie payments
will be took up?
"Tharel mi pipe haz gone out, kant yu
lend me match?
"How menny aunts hav yu got in yure
villagef
Emmy sickness amongst thems
al wunder if thare IL emmy truth in the
dispatch, that the aunts down or San
dy Greek hav all struck for higher
wages?
aWho do yu think yure aunts will vote
for, for justiss Nv the peace -.
dWhat il yure solid opinyun Nv the
new license law, will it make rum emmy
scarcer 2 81 i''a ~ -.
"Do yu buy emmy grocerys Nv old Fer
guson, hope not, he IL mean old skim
flinter, he sold me only last week pee Nv
bar soap for some beeswax.
"The world IL getting more full NV
wussness every day! -
81 wonder if thare IL emmy truth in
what everybody SEE about old square Ben
son, that he kant pay, only now and then
sum Nv his detsl
"Do you see much Nv the krickets now
a-daysP
az should really like tew know how
they are getting along; rather tuf times
for them guess, yu don't think they will
winter, do yu?
"When duz the moon change nova
days?
"Hev yu got any onion seed to spare,
that yu kan Recommend?
"Dew yu think England will ever pay
the Alla5armer klaims?
81 kant see what makes the cockrOaches
80 stuck up. / met one this morning,
and before I could put two civil questions
at him he wuz out Nv sight.
"Sum folks are in such swelling
hurry
CANT thare sum good law agin spiders
bildin their webs in the grass?
How much wheat haz yure aunt got
laid up yu must hev sum to spare?
81 wonder if il wont up and rain be-
fore tomorrow?
"They tell me that maple sugar IL a
drug in the market, owing to its peculiar
muchness yu kant tell, kan you, whether
this IL so or not, wish yu could!
Mi opinyun now IL that he who lives
to see next year, will see buckwheat a
big crop.
81 overheard the older hens say, az l
cum past naber Sherman's lower barn
this morning, that eggs waz Citing a
good deal onplenty, and they must git
tew work again
"Well! am in an awful hurry; am
going down tew tend jumping match
between Springfield and Steelspring, two
yung grasshoppers; this to be the hop ov
the season.
81 must be goingl
II am uncommon sorry kant stay
longer, and make yu good visit!
"By the way! Old mother Industry, /
have got profound sekret that want to
tell yu, but wouldn't have it known bi
ennybody for awl the world, if it should
git out once, it would ruin mer'
"Then keep the sekret yureself," spoke
the ant, cit liz worth more to yu than
ennybody else"
This IL every word the bizzy old ant
sed, but kept her eye all the time on the
phatt keernel ov wheat, and the loafing
grasshopper moved off, whistling Sally
cum up"
REMARKS.
This is the way with awl loafers, if they
kant steal yure time with idle questions,
their last dodge il to steal yure credulity
with an idle sekret.-Ne,o York Weekly.