The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-05-30
JOSH BILLINGS ESSAYS.
RIGHTEOUSNESS,

FAsTIDIoUsNEss,
Fastidiousness il merely the ignorance
ov propriety.
l hav saw people who had rather die
and be buried than say bull. They
wouldn't hesitate tew say male coao. If
the thoughts are pure and the language
IL chaste, it will do tew say almost emmy
thing
The young lady VINO, a flu years ago,
refused tew walk akrost potato field,
hekause the potatoze had eyes, ran away
from home soon afterwards with jewel
ry pedlar.
Fastltlousness, az general thing. IL
HOLIDAY virtew, and hav frequently
notissed thoze individuals who are alwus
afrade they shall cum akrost sumthing
hiiy improper, are generally looking for
it.
Fastidiousness and delikasy are often
konfounded, but thare liz this difference
the truly delikate amt afraid tew take
holt ov things that they are willing tew
| touch at all with their naked hands, while
| the fastidious are willing to take holt
Of ennything with gloves on.
DeIkasy IL the coquetry OF truth;
| fastidiousness il the prudery oy falsehood.
| LOVE.
Love IL one oy the pashuns, and the
most difficult one ov the pashuns, and
the most difficult one ov all tew deskribe.
| never yet hev herd love well defined.
l have read several deskripshuns ov it,
but they were written by thoze who were
in love Tor thought they waz). and l
wouldn't beleave such testimony, not
even under oath.
Almoste everybody. sum time in their
life, haz bin in love, and if they think it
IL an eazy sensashun tew deskribe, let
them set down and deskribe it, and see
if the person who listens to the dekrip-
shun will be satisfied with it.
I waz in love once miself for long
long years, and mi friends all said had a
consumpshun, but knu all the time what
= allied me. but couldn't deskribe it.
i Now all that kan rekolekt about this
i luv sickness il that forthoze long years
9 waz, if eenything, rather more of q
kondem phool than ordinary.
Love il an honorable disseaze enuf
s tew have, bekauze it liz natral; but emmy
a phelIow who haz laid six with it for !
long year, after be gets over it feels sum
d thing like the phellow who haz phel
u down on the ice when it IL very wet-he
y don't feel like talking about it before folks
Sum pholks think fear is the result o,
edukashun, but don't.
y I notiss that thoz who are edukateo
. the most, and those who are edukatec
the least, are troubled with fear just alike
. Fear and courage are instinkts.
= A man who il howard IL born SO
= and when he IL full oy scare, hiz hare OF
. hiz he'd will git up on end, 1 don't kart
i how much edukashun yu pile on top oN
i, it.
The greatest towards In the world are
> the men of the most genius-they art
the most silly towards.
One ov theze kind ov men will quake
with fear when a mouse knaws in the
wainskote at night, but they will face ar
earthquake next day with composure.
[ don't kno ov a more terrible sensa
> shun than fear; it il deth when it ex
hausts itself and ends in despair.
} [ am a crate howard miself, and be
leave waz born SO, and yet thare il
nothing which dispize SO much as kow
ardice
:, I would give all the other virtews hay
got provided [ have got enny), ano
throw in hundred dollars in mummy be
! sides, for an unlimited supply ov courage
[ would like tew hav courage enuff teH
face the devil himself if he waz the least
bit sassy tew NE.
I am satisfied that courage IL an in
stinkt, for notiss all the animal kreashun
hav it we'll defined