Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-09
Whissling.
By JOSH BILLINGS.

sum money, teW ma out VINO WIZ Vic iusI
whistler, but up tew now l am just az
much uncivilized on the subjekt as waz
| kan tell who played on the fust juice
harp, and who beat the fust tin pan, and
kno the year that the harp Nv thousand
strings waz discovered in, but when whis-
sling waz an infant liz az hard for me tew
say az mi prayers in 10 dutch.
Whissling is wind instrument, and IL
did bi puckring up the mouth ana dow
ing through the hole
There amt no tune on the whole earth
hut what kan be played on this instru-
ment, and that celebrated old tune Yam
kaedoodle haZ bin most whissled teW
death. ,F.s.F J,
Crate thinkers are not apt tew be good
vh;sslers IN fact, when man kant think
oy nothin, then he begins tew whlssell.
We seldom see raskal who is good
whistler there IL a CRATE deal Of honor
bright II, 4 sharp, well -puckered whissell.
GOOD whisslers are Citing skarse. 70
vears ago they waz plenty, but the desire
tew cit ritch, or tew hold oflss, has took
the nucker out of this honest and cheer
full amuZement :. :, :.
ri had a boy who couldn't whissell, !
don't want tew be understood that should
feel at liberty tew give the boy up for lost
INT would much rather he would kno
how tew whissell fust rate than kno how
few play a sekond rate game ov kards.
wouldn't force boy Ov mine tew
whissell agin his natral inclinashun.
Wimmin, az kind, or in the lump, are
Door whisslers. j don't know how found
this out, but am glad ov it; 1t IL good
deal like Growing in hen.
Growing IL an unlady.like thing in hen
hey often heard hens tri tew Gro, but
never knu one to dew herself justiss.
A rooster kan Gro well, and hen kan
kluk well, and 50 let each one Nv them
silk tew their trade. 3ti
Klucking il just az necessary in this
world az growing, espeshily II ltiz well
did. qi.tH
the last man on reckord who would refuse
a woman q chance to whissel If she waz
certain she had the right pucker for 1t.
never knu good whistler but what
had a GOOD cOnstitushun. Whissling IL
composed Of pucker and wind, and these
two ACCOMPLISHMENTS denote vigOr. u
sum people alwus whissel WHARF there
IL danger--tbis they do to keep the rain
out oy them. When waz boy always
considered whissling the next best thing
to kandle to 60 down cellar with In the
mite time
The best WHISPERS hay ever heard hav
bin amung the negroes Il make this remark
with the highest respekt to the accom-
plishments Of the whitesl, hav herd 9
south karoliny darby whissel 80 natral
that mocking bird would drop aworm
out oy his bill and talk back to the niger.
don't want emmy better evidence ov the
general honesty thare liz in whissell than
the fackt that thare amt nothing which q
dog will answer quicker than the whissell
ov his master, and dogs are az good judges
ov honesty az emmy kritter that live.
1t liz hard work to phool dog once, and
it IL next TO impossible to phool him the
sekond time.
amt afraid to trust emmy man for
small amount who IL good whistler.
I wouldn't want TO sell him farm on
credit, for / should expekt to take the
farm back after a while, and remove the
mortgage myself. rwfs
You can't whissell mortgage opA from
q farm. $50,
A fust rate whistler IL like middling-
sized fiddler, good for nothing else, ard
tho whissiing may keep man from GIT
ting lonesum, it wont keep him from GIT
ting ragged.
good whistler, and don kno or emmy
Business on the breast ov the esrth that
will make man so lazy and useless, with
out actually, killing him, az hunting PEGS
In the Wilderness =, xs.1, a.
Hunting bees and writing second rate
verses are evidences ov sum genius, but
Gather oy them will unfit nan for good
square days work.--NsW York Weekly.
A child. aged about six years, belong
ine 10 AZ. and Mrs. Lewis Prior, residing
dix OF seyen miIes east o. Carthage, Iowa
was scaided - oath few dayS tgo BY
kettle Of hot water turning over on Il.
This Is the second child Mr.. and Mrs.
Prior have lost from scalding to death.
The first accident occurred about two years
aso-the child falling into kettle OF boil