The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-10-14
Josh Billings Under Oath.

S0sh Billings Cnder Oath.
Josh Billings being duly sworn, tes,ifys
az fOlers:
Eight wont go into ana hay mutch
ov emmy thing left over. fIenmy a yung
fellow haz found out this sum in ar,hme-
ticks bi trieing tew git number s foot
into a number boot
NIrteu, in one respekt, is like mummy.
That which we hav tew work the hardest
for sticks tew US the best.
have often herd thare waz men who
knew more than they could tell, but
never met one. hay often met tEoze
who could tell a CRATE deal more than they
did kno, and waz willing tew sware to it
besides
Hope haz CRATE menUy bluuders, but
thare IL one thing about her that | alwus
did like-she means well
Sum people are good simply bekause
they are tew lazy to be wicked, aad 9th
ers, bekause they hant got good chance.
Thare IL one thing that am not only
certain, but proud ov-thare il more peo-
pie n this world who hav changed from
bad TO good, than from good to bad
In mummy, interest pho!iows the princi-
pal; in morals, principle often phollows
the interest.
Yu will notis one thing-the devil sell
DUN offers tew 90 into partnership with a
bzzy man, but you viii often see him
offer tew jine the lazy man, and furnish
all the kapiiaI.
don't kpo, after all, but IL jist about
az wei tew git abuv yure bizzness as 1t
is tew have yure bizznes git abuv yu.
SIN time ov peace prepare for war"
This il the way sum tamilys liv all the
tiEIe.
Whenever yu hear man who alwus
wants tew bet hiz "bottom dollar yu
kan make up your mind that that IS the
size his pile.
The devil is the only individual on res
kord who IL said not TO possess a single
virtew.
Thare IL nothing that man will git so
sick of az too much molassis.
The vices which man kontrackts in
hiz youth, however much he may shake
them oph, will often call on him thru life,
and seek tew renew hiz acquaintance
Every man has hiz pholys, but thare
il this diIerence-in the poor man they
look like crimes, while in the ritch man,
they only appear tew be exsentricitys.
Old age INCREASES US III wisdom, and
also in rumatism.
kno lots ov pholks who are pius jist
bekause they waz bern So They kant
tell when they got religion, and, if they
should loze it, they woulda't kno it.
We never oulgro our phollys-we only
alter them.
Thare i this difference between chari-
ty and gil-chariy Gums from the
heart gift from the pocket
Coquets are generally too silly to be
very wicked
Thare IL full as mcnny pholks in this
world who have bin ruined bi kindness az
thare Il who hav bin injured by kruelty.
The man who IL wicked enuff tew be
dreaded IL safer man in community than
the one who IL just virtewous enutf not to
be suspekted.
Flattery IL the vust kind of lieing.
Hypocracy Is alwus humble.
Gravity don't prove emmy thing If a
nan is really wize, he don't need it, and
if be amt wize, he shouldn't hav It.
1t il iist ~ natral few be born poor az
it IL tew be born naked, and it is no more
disgrace.
Thare IL no excuse whatever for the
insoIense OF wealth thare may possibly
be for the insolence ov poverty
Lazyness IL the fust law ov natur self
~ D-aearvash,-, - tho SrcppI
Yu kant konvert sinners bi preaching
the gospel tew them at half price. Emmy
sinner who IL anxious tew git hiz religion
in that way, IL satisfied with poor arti~
kle-N Y. Weekly.