Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-19
The cote is a koarse woollen sheep.

ihoy nave sPit noof anu Wnolo
tail.
They have a good appetite and sang
uine digestion.
They swallo what they eat, and will
eat emmy thing they kan bite.
Their moral karakters are not pol
ished; they had rather steal rotten
turnip out ov garbage-box than tew
cum honestly bi pek ov oats
The male cote haz two horns on the
ridge on his he'd, and a mustash on his
bottom lip, and is the plug ugly ov his
naberhood
A mask uline cote will ite emmy thing,
from an elephant down to his shadder
or dead wall.
They strike from their but end, in
sted ov the shoulder, and are az likely
tew hit az hammar ia a nail-hed.
They are hi-seasoned animal; az
much SO az a pound of assifidity.
They are faithful critters, and will
stick tew friend az long az he lives
in a shanty. They kan xlime emmy
thing but greast pole, and kno the
way up rock az natural az wood
bine.
They are az certain tew raise as yung
ones; sum familys are haff gotes, and
the other haff children. They are good
eating when they are yung, bnt they
leave it oph az they git stronger.
They are alwus poor in the boldly,
but phatti in the stumick what they eat
seems to all go to appetight. Yu mite
az we'll agree tew phatt an injun-rubber
over-shoe bi filling it with shells,
az tew raise emmy adipoze membrane
on the out side bust ov cote.
A phatt cote wonld be literary cur
iosity.
They use the same d;alek az the sheep,
and the yung ones speak the language
more iuently than the parents do.
There IL only two animals ov the earth
that will eat tobakko-one il a man, and
luther il a cote; but the cote under
stands it the most, for he swa,lers the
spit, chaw and all.
They are handy at living a long time;
reaching an advanced age without ar
irving at emmy definite konklusion.
How long cote lives without giving
it up there is no man old enough tew
tell.
Methuzler, ifhis memory was bad at
forgetting, mite give good-sized guess;
but, unfortunately for science and this
essa, Methuzeler amt here.
Gotes will live in emmy klimate, and
on emmy vittels except tanbark; and if
they ever cum to square death, it is q
profound sekret.
The femail cote IL either the mother,
or sister, or cuzzin ov the male cote,
ackording tew the prevailin circumstan-
ces IN the case, or else labor under
delushum, forget which.
They give milk intuitively, about
quart, before it IL watered, in twelve
hours, which liz the subject ov nourish-
ment in various ways.
This milk, which liz extrakted from
the female cote, iz excellent to finish up
young ones on; but IL apt tew make
them bellycose and frightful.
1t IL not unkomon for babe, while
inhailing this pugnashus fluid, to let
oph his left colleckshum ov diggits, and
ketch the nurse on the pinnakle of the
smeller, and tap it for claret.
This IL common takt among the
Irish babes, and explains the reason viii,
in afier-lite, these same babes makes
such brilliant hits.
In writing the history ov the mail and
femail cote tew adorn the pages ov fut-
er times, ihatter miself that have stuck
tew the truth, and havn't allowed mi
imaginashun tew bos the job.
A great many ov our best-built his
torians are apt tew mistake opin-
yuns for facts, this iz an eazy mistake
tew make; but when strike goose, or
bed-bugg, or cote, you notis one thing-i
stay with them.-Josh Biilings.