Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-03
Josh Killings Papers.

Most people are like an egg, too phul
ov themselves to hold emmy thing else.
ssAIisoryr luvS komDanY" but kant
bear kompetishun, there aint no boldly
but what thinks thare bile IL the sorest
bile in markit.
To be a big man amung big men, IL
what proves a mans karakter-to be a
bul frog amung tadples, don't amount
tn mulch.
What blessed thing it is that we
kant ''see ourselves az others see us, -
the sight would take all the starch oBt
Nv us.
There IL lots ov pholks in this wurld
who kan keep nine out oy ten ov the
commandments without emmy trouble at
all, but the one that iz left they kant
keep the small end Ov.
Expektashun IL the child ov Hope,
and like its parent IL an arrogant brat.
Excentricitys are most alwus arty-
fishall. and the best that kan be sed ov
them iz, they are quite az often the re-
suit oy difiidence az OV vanity.
If want tew git at the trew karakter
Ov man, study hiz vizes more than
du hiz Yirtews.
Those whoexpekt tew keep themselves
pure in this life must keep their souls
bileing all the time, like a pot, and keep
all the time skimming the surface.
1t don't du teW trust a man too much
who IL alwus in hurry, he IL like
pissmire. whose heart and bones lays in
hiz heels.
Ihare il nothing so delishus tew the
soul oy man az an occasional moment
oY sadness.
Jelous people alwus luy themselfs
more than they do those whome they
are jelous ov.
Curiosity IL the germ oy all enter
prizes-men dig for woodchueks more
for curiosity, than they do for wood
chucks.
The purest and best speciment ov hui
man natur that the wurld haz ever seen,
or ever will see, hay bin the yirtewous
heather.
Men don't fail so often in this wurld
/ from want of right motives, az they
do from lack ov grip.
/ There liz lots oV folks in this world
whom yu kan bio up like bladder, and
4 then xix them az high az yu plez.
/ hav alwus notissed one thing, that
when a cunning man burns hiz fingers
everybody hollers for JOY.
! ] sumtimes distinguish between talent
4 and genius in this way: A man of tall
/ tale, but it takes a man ov genius TO
\ make the tale.
| kant tell now whether a goose stands
/ on one leg so much to rest the goose. l
! wish some scientific man would tell me
/ all about this.
1 had rather be a child again than TO
4 be the autokrat ov the world.
Thare is newmerous individuals in the
land who look upon what they hain't
got az the only thing worth hayin.
A fu branes in mans he'd are az
noisy az shot in a blown up bladder.
One man oV genius to 81 thousand
four hundred and 40 men oy talent IL
just about the rite perporshun for actual
bizzness.
Ventilashun IL a good thing, but when
a man kant lay down in a 10 aker lot
without taxing down lengths of fence TO
let the wind in he iz altogether TO airish.
think that a hen who undertakes
tew lay 2 eggs day must necessarily
neglekt sum other branch oY biZZness.
Thare il a slip between a cup and
lip, but not haff az menny az thare
ought tew be.
The two most important words IN
emmy language are the shortest-"1es@
and "NO."
One ov the most honest and reliable
men kno ov at the present time liz '.Old
Probabilitiz !" he iz an ornament and
honor tew hiZ sex.
Rather than not hay faith in emmy
thing, am willing to be beat 9 times
out ov 10.
/ don't never hev emmy troubble In
regulating mi own kondukt, but tew
keep other pholks straight IL what both
ers me.