Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-16
JOSH BILLINGS PAPERS.


hav spent a great deal of sarching,
and sum money, tew find out who waz
the fust whistler, but up tew now am
just az much uncivilized on the subjekt
az waz.
kan tell who played on the fust juice
harp, and who beat the fust tin pan, and
i kno the year that the harp NV thousand
strings waz discovered in, but when whiss.
ling waz an infant IL az hard for me tew
say az mi prayers in 10 dutch.
Whissling is wind instrument, and il
did bi puckring up the mouth, and blow
ing through the hole.
There amt no tune on the whole earth
but what can be played on this instru-
ment, and that celebrated old tune, Yam
keedoodle, haz bin almost whissled tew
death.
Crate thinkers are not apt tew be good
whisslers; in fakt when man kant think
oV nothing, then he begins tew whissell.
We seldom see raskal who is good
whistler, thare is CRATE deal ov honor
bright in sharp, well-puckered whis-
sell.
Good whisslers are getting skarse, Is
years ago they was plenty, but the desire
teW git rich, or to hold offiss, has took
the quicker out Of this honest and cheer
full Amusement.
If had boy who couldn't whissel,
don't want teW be understood that should
feel at liberty tew give the boy up for lost,
but would much rather he would know
how to whissel fust rate than know how
tew play a second rate game oV kards.
wouldn't force q boy of mine tew
Whissel agin his natral inClinashun.
Wimmin, as kind, or in the lump, are
poor minister's. don't kno how found
this out, but am glad ov it, 1t il good
deal like growing in her.
Growing is an unlady like thing in a
hen teW do.
/ hav often heard hens tri teW Gro, but
never knu one tew do herself justiss.
A rooster kan krow well, and hen
kan kluk well, and sa let each one ov
them silk tew their trade.
Klucking il just az necessary IN this
wurld az Growing, espeshily if it IL well
did.
But want it well understood that am
the last man on record who would refuse
a woman a chance teW whissel if she waZ
certain she had the right pucker for it.
never knu good whistler but what
had good constitushun. Whissling il
composed ov pucker and wind, and these
two accomplishments denote vigor.
Sum people alwus whissel WHARF there
is danger-this they do to keep the fraid
out ov them. When l waz boy alwus
considered Whissling the next best thing
to kandle to go down celler with in the
mite time.
The best whisslers have ever heard
hav bin among the negroes, ii make this
remark with the highest respekt to the
accomplishments Ov the whites hav
herd a south karOliny darby whissel so
natral that hooking bird would drop a
worm out ov his bill and talk back to the
niger.
l don't want emmy better evidence ov
the general honesty thsre IL in a whissell
than the fackt that tbsre amt nothing
which dog will answer quicker than the
whissell ov his master, and dogs are as
good judges Ov honesty as emmy kritter
that lives.
II IL u1iu NOlh " JLACOA q NtE5 OuSC1
and it il next TO impossible to phool him
the sekond time.
| amt afraid to trust emmy msn for
small amount who is good whistler.
wouldn't want to sell him farm on
credit, for l should expekt to have to
take the farm back after awhile, and re-
move the mortgage misef.
You cant Whissell a mortgage oph from
farm.
A fust rate whistler IL like middling
sized fiddler, good for nothing else, and
tho whissling may keep a man from git
ting lonesum, it don't keep him from git
ting ragged
l never knu bee hunter but what waz
a good whistler, and l don't kno oV eny
bissiness on the breast of 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 a
good square days wOrk.-NeW York
Weekly.