The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-03-30
JOSH BILLINGs on wHIssLING.

/ hav spent a great deal of sarching,
and sum money, tew find out who
was the first whistler, but up to now
/ am Just as much uncivilised on the
subject as was.
I kan tell who played on the fust
juice harp, and who beat the first tin
pan, and / know the year the harp of
athousand strings was discovered in,
but when Whissling was an infant, is
as hard for me TO say as my prayers
in low dutch. 5zs8I s9a
Whissling is wind instrument, and
is had bi puekering up the mouth, and
blowing through the hole. sssae p
Thar amt no tune on the whole
earth but that kan be played on this
Instrument, and that celebrated old
tune, Yankeedoodle, has been almost
whissled to deth.
Crate thinkers are not apt to be
good whisslers, in fakt, when a man
Kant think of nothing, then he begins
TO whissel. 1g
We seldom see raskal who is
good whistler. Thar is CRATE deal
of honor bright in sharp, we'll puck
cred whisscl.
Good whisslers are gettin skarse. 70
years ago they was plenty, but the de-
sire to get rich, or to hold offs, has
took the puckcr out of honest and
cheerful amusement.
If had q boy who couldn't whissel,
don't want to be understood that
should be at liberty to give the boy up
for lost, but would much rather he
would kno how to WHSLE fust rate
than to kno how to play second rate
game ov cards.
I wouldn't force boy. ov mine to
whissel again his natural iuclinashuns.
Wimmen, as kind, or in lump,
are poor whisslcrs. don't know how
fonnd this out, but am glad ov it,
it is a good deal like Knowing in hen.
I have often heard hens tri to kro,
never knew one to do herself justice.
A rooster can krow well and hen
can kluck well. and i say let each one
of them stick to their trade.
Kfucki1igis justsas necessary in this
world as growing, espeshily if it is
we'll did.
But want it we'll understood that
am the last man on reckord who would
refuse woman chance to Wbissel if
she was certain she had the right
pucker for it.
Sum people always whissel where
there's danger-they do this to keep
the fraid out of them. When was
boy always konsidered whissling the
next best thing tn a candle tn go down
cellef with in the mite time. -
don't want any better evidence of
the general honesty thar is in whis-
sci than the fakt that thar aint nothing
which dog will answer the whissel
OF his master, and dogs are as good
Judges ov honesty as emmy kritter that
lives.
Itis hard work to phool a dog once,
and next to impossible tn phool him
the second time.
1 amt afraid to trust any man for
a small amount who is good whis-
sler.
1 wouldn't want to sell him a farm
on credit, for should expect tn rhavea
tu take the farm back after awhile and
remove the mortgage miself.
You can'tswhissel the mortgage oph
from farm. .--.s-,
A fust rate whistler is like q mid
ding sized fiddler, good for nothing
else, and the whissling may keep him
from getting lonesome, it wont keep
him from getting ragged.
never knu bee hunter but what
was a good whistler, and I don't kno
of eny blissness OH the breast of the
earth that will make man so lazy and
useless, without aktuallys killing him,
as hunting bees in the wilderness.