The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-03-24
Whissling.

nave spent Il great ucdl vi sdTclliilS'
and sum money, to find out who was
the fust whistler, but up tew now | am
just az much uncivilized on the subjek-
| as | waz
kan tell who played on the first
juice harp, and who beat the fust tin
pan, and kno the year that the harp
NV thousand strings waz discovered in,
but when whissling was an infant IL az
hard for me tew say mi prayers in 10
dutch.
Whissling is wind instrument, and
il did by puckring the mouth, andplow-
ing through the hole.
There amt no tune on the whole earth
but what kan be played on this instru-
ment, and that celebrated old tune,
Yankeedoodle, haz bin most whissled
tew death.
Crate thinkers are not apt tew be
good WHISPERS; in fakt, when man
kant think ov nothing, then he begins
few whissell.
We seldom see a raskal who is good
whistler; thare IL CRATE deal ov honor
bright in sharp, well,puckered whis-
SELL
Good whisslers are Citing skarse. IS
years ago they waz plenty, but the disine
tew Git ritch, or tew hold ottiss, haz took
the pucker out ov this honest and cheer
full Amusement.
If had boy who couldn't whissell,
don't want to be understood that i
should feel at liberty tew give the boy
up for lost, but would much rather he
would kno how tew whssell fust rate
than kno how tew play a second rate
game ov kards.
wouldn't force a boy ov mine tew
whissell agin hiz natral inclinashun.
Wimmin, az kind, or in lump, are
poor whisslers. don't kno howl found
this out, but am glad ov it; it IL a good
deal like growing in a hen.
Growing is an unlady like thing in a
hen tew do.
| hav often heard hens tri tew Gro,
but never knu one to do herself JUS
tiss.
A rooster kan krow well, and a hen
kan kluk well, and so i let each one NV
them silk tew their trade.
Klucking IL just az necessary in this
world as growing, espeshily if it IL well
did
But want it we'll understood that i
am the last man on reckOrd who would
refuse a woman a chance to whissel if
she waz certain she had the right pucker
for it.
never knu a good whistler but what
had a good constitution. Whissling is
composed of quicker and these two ac-
complishments denote vigor.
Sum people alwus whissel WHARF there
| - 1onuap- tbiS tba,- do 70 l-aa1, 10 100 n,
out ov them. When j was boy al
ways konsidered whissling the next best
thing to kandle to 20 down cellar with
in the mite time.
The best whisslers hav ever heard
hav BIN amung the negroes ii make this
remark with the highest respekt for the
accomplishments of the whites). hav
herd a south karoliny darkey whissell
so natral that moclling-brd would
drop worm out of his bill and talk
back to the niger.
| don't want emmy better evidence ov
the general honesty thare il in a whis-
sell than the fackt that thare amt moth
ing which a dog will answer quicker
! than the whissell of his master, and
dogs are az good judges ov honesty az
emmy critter that live.
1t IL hard work to phool a dog once,
and it IL next to impossible to phool
him the sekond time.
amt afraid to trust emmy man for a
small amount who IL good whistler.
| wouldn't want to sell him farm on
credit, for | should expellt to have to
take the farm back after while, and
remove the mortgage miself.
You can't whissell mortgage oph
from farm.
A fust rate whistler IL like a middling-
sized fiddler, good for nothing else, and
tho whissling may keep man from git
ting lonesum, it won't keep him from
Citing ragged.
never knu bee hunter but what
waz good whistler, and don't kno ov
emmy Business on the breast ov the
earth that will make a man so lazy and
useless, without actually killing him, az
hunting bees in the wilderness.
Hunting bees and writing second rate
verses are evidences ov sum genius, but
Gather of them will unfit a man for 6
good square days work.-Josh Billing
IN Neto York Weekly.