The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-01-10
JOSH Bn.LrNes. PAPERS.
wuIssELL1xo.

have spent . great deal Of sarch-
ing, and sum money, tew find out
who was the fust whisseller, but up
TO now I an Just as uncivilized on
the subject - I waz.
|. kan tell who played on the fust
juice harp, and who beat the fust tin
pan, end / kno the year that the harp
Of thousand strings waz discovered
in, but when whisselling waz an in
FAINT IL az hard for me az tsw say mi
prayers in 10 dutch.
Whisselling is wind instrument,
and IL done by puckering the mouth,
and blowing through the hole.
There amt no tune on the whole
earth but what kan be played on this
instrument, and that sS1ebrsted old
tune, Yankeedoodle, haz bin whissell-
cd to death. s
Crate thinkers are not apt tew be
good whissellers, in fakt, when .
man kant think ov nothing, then he
begins tew whissell.
We seldom see raskal who ID Q
good whisseller, thare il . grste deal
Of honor bright in sharp weli-puck-
cred whissell.
Good whissellers are getting
skarse. rs years ago they waz plen-
ty, but the desire tew get ritch, or
tew hold ofiss, haz took the pucker
out Of this honest and cheerful
amusement.
II had q boy that conldn't whis-
sell, don't want to DO understood
tbat feel at liberty tew give the boy
up for lost, but would much rather
be would kno how tew whissell fust
rate than kpo how tew play second
rate game of wist.
But want it well understood that
am the last man on rekord who
would refuse . woman chance tc
whissell il she WOE certain she had
the right pucker for it.
/ never knu q good whisseller bui
what had o good constitution. Whis
selling IL composed of pucker and
wind, and these two accomplishments
denote vigor.
] don't want any better eviderce
Of the general honesty thare IL in Q
whissell than the fakt that there aim
nothing which . dog will answer
quicker than the whissell of his mss
ter, and dogs are az good judges o.
honesty az emmy critter that live.
| / amt afraid TO trust any man fol
q small amount who IL good whis
seller.
I wouldn't want to sell aim farm
oh credit. for I should expekt TO hav,
TO take the farm back after q while
and remove the mortgage miself
You can't whissell a mortgage opl
from a farm.
A fust rate whisseller is like q mid
ding sized fiddler, good for nothing
else, and tho whisselling may keep I
man from Citing lonesum, it won
keep him from Citing ragged.
I never knu bee-hunter but wha
waz o good whisseller, and I dom
kno ov emmy business on the breas
or earth that will make Q man 30 laz
and useless, without actually killinJ
him, AZ hunting bees in the wilder
ness.
Hurting bees and writing secon,
rate verses are evidences of sum gen
ius, but Gather of them will unfit
man for good square days work.
1, Some people alwas whissell whar
thare IL danger-this they do to kee
the rain cut Of them. When waz
BOY i always considered whissellin
the next best thing to q handle to g
) down cellar with in the mite time.
i The best whisslers j hav ever her
hav bin amung the negroes Ii mak
this remark with the highest respel
for the accomplishments of th
whites, herd q south karolina dal
hey whissell SO natral that q mockinS
; bird would drop . worm out of b
, bill and talk back.
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