The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-12-09
THE JosH KILLINGS PAPERs.



Of oil the beasts who roam the hill
tops, or CLINE the plains, there is none
who makes SO few bluHders, and so
many good hits, as the fox.
bis shrcWdness IL more than q
match for the lions strength, hiz log
lex is more than match for the NAL
ice Oy the wolf, and hiz pOliteness
and Difference makes him the top and
gentleman Ov the forest.
The fox IS a literary cuss, he haz
been the hero oV history, fable and
/ song, from the fust dawn Ov oral or
written knowledge. lie waz Ueni-
/ US long before ackedemick hOnors
nourlshed; he was poet, skollar and
| sage before the days ov Homer and
Heroootus, and now, in our times, he
Is me Ben Butler Ov diplomacy and.
the brigham Young OfmatFiInony.
1he foX iE purely game bird. II
costs on an average fifty dollars tew
ketch him, aud when he IL caught ne
ain'L worth more than ten sbiiIin5s.
lie follows no regular bizzness for
sustenance, bat liVs on the chances
| and on hiZ wit
he IL tieshy minded sinner, and
hlZ blandness IL too Inuch fOI. tie
quaintne5s oy the goose. tie melsu.
kOliy reserve Ov the turkcv. or thc
pOmPOus rhetorick ov the rooz;er
They ali kneel ie9 the Iogick Of h.
tongue, and find themselfs Al rest IN
his stuIumuk.
He luvs lam & green peas. bu, wiz
diskOunt the pease rather than toae
hiz dinner, and viii GO a mile aud
half out OV his way TO be polite 10 a
dnck or gOslih.
But the most lively trait in the fox
IL his cunning he alwas petty fogs
biz Own case, and wins a great deal
Often than he loses.
Foxes are not like men, krftters uv
habit they never do a thing twice
with the same figures, and often alter
their mind before they do a thing
once. This is the effect of too much
genius.
There IL this difference between
genius and common sense in a fox;
Common sense II governed by cir
cumstances, but circumstances il gov
erned by genius.
The fox haZ no moral honesty. but
he llaz got CRATE supply ov politi-
kal honesty. If another fox in his
parish wants phait goose, he will
work hard and git the goose for him
Ghd then clean the meat all oph from
the outskirts OV the goose for petty
Iogging the case, and give him The
bones, and tell hiz politikaI friend.
with smile in the left corner of his
eye, that ''every thing is lovely and
the goose hangs high"
Foxes hav learnt this piety from
watching the men git geese for each
other, and ifanimals don't want their
plety tew git sour, they must keep
away from the men week DAYS.
The fox IL cOngenial iii hiz temper;
he IL no hermit he can't git mad at
society because they d0r't iatter
him, and pitch hedlong in solitude,
and cbaW rutes, and drown out his
stummuk trieing teW drink a spring
dri, and think he il virtuous bekauZc
there aint no chickens in his nabor-
hood tC steal.
The fox is tew much ov Il pollyii-
clan to invest his religion in env sich
indigenous trash. He knows that
society haz claims on him, and arc
indebted teW him for some goose,
and expcks to be for several more
This IL noble trait in the fox, and
shows that he ain't child ov ingrati-
tude.
Foxes cum OV the ground, but
whether they are made oV divti kant
swarV with much certainty. They
cum out Of tho ground through the
instrumentality Ov hole, but wheth-
ef the hole begins at the surface and
runs into the mountain or whether
1T begins i'll the mountain and runs to
the surface, don't make kussid bit
of difference.
But philosophers hav argued about
this hole bizZness for years. Sum Oy
them say 1t runs in, and sum ov them
be darned If it duz; and right here
we can see the amazing difference
between the lOgik Ov the philosophers
and the lOgick ov the fox. While
they stand hteiHg at the mouth Ov
the hole, the fox IL stealing their duck
aud goslins.
If emmy boldly feels az tho Tie,
had emmy reasonable dOuts about the
genius Ov fox, let them look at one
III his innocence, chained at post.
Let him notis the small Yertikle
head, the little uneazy eye, the pert
car, alwus on end, the smurkin9
countenance, the lean and 1.-the bod
dy, the axiOus spirit leaking out at
every pore, royal marks oy the cum
ning rogue.
Foxes are like cunning men-lhey
hav but few brains, and but a small
place tew keep them in, but, what
few they hav got arc like angle worms
in hot water-full Ov anxiety and
Inizery.
Cunning is a branding iron; the
letters on it are small, but alwus red
hot, and they read thus-Look out
for the fox.-NeI0 York WeekLy.