Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-05-25
For the Chronicle.
HARD SHELL SERMON.
Subject-FashiOn.

Subject-FashiOn.
My dyin concregashun, it rejoiceth
me muchly to-nitc to see such a peart
chanse turn out to hear sound doktrin.
You will find my tex in Cronikils, page
240.
For as n ring in buIlocls's snout, or n
rudder in n ships stun, so Is the Darters OF
Zion toted ava by the foolish fashions OF
this evil generation, ar.
Never, sense Adam was a baby, nor
Fave talked to the old sarpent how to
make her fig leaf Dolly Warden, hev
ther been sich muss about dress
That beef eater, Dickens, and his gal
Dolly Warden, hev made more cite
ment about duds an how to make and
war um, than ever hern afore in all
my born days by a hull runnet full
Our gals ar plump crazy. Hit just
knocks the hind sites often ennythinl
axstent, as shure as yu ar lisnin to my
gospel tones, ar.
Fur as a ring in bullock's snout
or a rudder in a ships stun, so is tht
Darter's of Zion toted ava by tn,
foolish fashions of this evil genera
shun, ar.
My dying congregashun, you mou
travel all over the yeath from Dan t.
Barsheba, an Tie stan treat for tn,
hull meetin that thar han't no plas,
under the brod canister of the hevins
an fur a hull hunderd years thar han
been, a wors set of det bound mel
than now grazes on the common pas
ter of Gods green yeath, an you cal
no more git money outen EN-, than yol
kin git blud outen turnup, good lick
er outen stump water, or musick outer
a iackass, for his tother haff has got
ring in his snout, an he has to come t,
the lick log. She can rase the none.
for the theater, for the syrcus, for tn
side sho, but if you want bill settle'
for medessins, for groserys, for you
bucher, for your Preacher or you
printer, you stand no sho, for Doll
Warden has cleaned um of the last red
Fashun has trumped you outon king
dom cum, ar.
Fur as ring in bullock's snout
or a rudder in a ships stun, so is tn
Darters of Zion toted ava by the fool
ish fashuns ofthis evil gencrashun, ar
My dyin congregashun, on the rod
to perdishin, ye sisterin of Delily, tos
your purity heads. hump yourself, e.
hit on credit, go hit on time, go hit o
eternity. The likes of you cut off tn
hardshcll baptist he'd by your finer
an fine dancin, trim Samson's lock-
get ashy and turn yourself into pilla
of salt at the destrucshun of SODIUM
who sale ava lucky buzzard stile a
lite in the scum Of fashun. You an
Jest like unto a pecoek hoo spreds Ii
tale, bucks his eyes, an seams to sa
: here's your bird, your Dolly Vardoi
! salin along an amt cariu a copper fu
+, all creashun and the rest of woman
kind, jest spredin yourself like lii
: tie bantam hen on a hull settin {
goose eggs, ar.
Fur as a ring in bullock's snou
or rudder in a ships stun, so is th
, Darters of Zion totcd ava by FOOLS
fashuns Of this evil goncrashun, ar.
What shall | likon these darters {
fashun to? They are liken to ths
same peacock hoo spreads his tall
stiffens his neck, an he thinks he is jii
a leetlc of the purtyest bird that eve
spread Dolly Warden; but when i
takes a peep at his underpinnin i
loses all his starch and pants and lool
as umble as a step chile and as soril
as iackess in a sno storm, an lie sta
treat if you wood take haff the win
men an wash off the starch and pain
take down your har, throw way you
Iinsidcntals, shed your Dolly Vardel
3 and you will be likcn to that po'
bird that wantawar of his weekne
- tai he looked down at his feet. b
/. hits the fashion-Dolly Warden is a
the go. See a Dolly on shu heels
high as a derbin wheel, she wiggl
/. along like a cripple snake-O, it's q
tt fashun, Squeeze EN- up till tina Loo
like a wasp in the waste-but, o, i
y the fashun Sec um totin he'd gear
m. hit m. a rnnnct Of alr y. its 4