The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1871-06-15
yesh Billings on whissc,liag.

josh Billings on Whisseiling.
hav spent u great deal Of searching
and some money, tew find out who was
the fust whistler, but up to now an
just az much uncivilized on the subjek,
as waz.
kan tell who played on the fust juice
harp and who beat the inst tin pan, and
l kno the year that the harp Nv thou
sand strings was discovered in, but when
whistling waz an infant liz az hard for
me tew say az mi prayers in 10 dutch.
Whissling il wind instrument, and
IL did bi pickering up the mouth and
blowing trough through the hole.
If had boy who couldn't whissell,
don't want tew be understood that shud
feel at liberty te W give the boy up for
lost, but would much rather he would
kno no tow whissell fust rate than kno
how few play second rate gaume Of
kards.
wouldn't force boy Ov mine tew
whissell agin his natral inclinashu.
Wimmin, az kind, or in lump, are
poor whisslers don't kno how found
this out but j am glad ov it; it il a good
uSsh hhc cIOWiuS III Il Ncu
Growing liz an unlady like thing in a
hen tew do.
have often heard mems tri tew crow,
but never knu one tew do herself JUS
tiss.
A rooster kan kro well, and hen kan
kluk well, and So let each one Of them
silk tew Their trade.
klucking IL Just az necessary in this
world az Growing, espeshly if il IL well
did.
But want il well understood that
am the last man on reckord who would
refuse a woman chance tcw whisseli
If she was certain she had t!eri.ht to
quicker for it.
never knu a good whistler but what
had good cOnstitushun. Whissiing liz
composed Of pucker and wind, and these
two accomplishments denote vigor.
Some people :iiwus whisscil WHARF
thare is danger this they DO to keep the
Faid out of them. When waz boy
always konsidered whissiing the next
best thing to a handle 10 go down cellar
with in the mite time. - .
The best whisslers hay ever heard
hav been among the negroes. q make
this remark with the highest respeck to
to the accomplishments Nv the whites
hav heard South karoliny darkey
whisseli so natral that mocking bird
would drop a worm out of his bill and
talk back
l don't want any better evidence ofthe
general honesty thar IL in whisseII than
the fact that there amt nothing which a
dog will answer quicker than a whissell
ov his master, and dogs are az good judg-
es ov honesty az emmy kritter that live |
1t IL hard work to phool dog once,
and it IL next to impossible to phool him |
the second time.
l amt afraid to trust emmy man for
small amount who IL good whistler.
l wouldn't want to sell him farm on
credit, for should expekt to have to tax
the farm back awhile and remove the
mOrtage miself.
You can't whissell mortagage oph
from farm.
A first rate whisseler il like middling
sized fiddler; good for nothing else, and I
the whissling may keep man from git
ting lonesum; it won't keep him from
getting ragged.
l never knu bee hunter but what was
q good whistler, and don't kno ov emmy
bissiness on the breast ov the earth that
will make a man SO lazy and useless,
without actually killing hip, DE- hunting
bees in the wilderness.
Hunting bees and writing second rate
verses are evidences ov sum genius, and
either Of them will unfit man for good
square DAVIS work"