Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-08-10
JOSH BILLINGS PHILOSOPHY.
Cheap Flowers

The dandylion haz cum again once
more.
Welkum, dear Yellow Blossom!
Thare IL karelessness about yu
that extol; yu amt afrade ov sno
storm; yu amt stuk up, and amt
ashamed to be born in COW pasture,
or cluss alongside ov hen coop.
Yu are the fust posy that puts in
an appearance, and will gro on poor
sile.
,Yu are Demokrat, God bless yul
Yu waz a leading artikle in the
fust bokay made when a boy, and /
have Dragged on yu ever since.
Yu don't smell so powerful as the
lonesum violet, or the stately sun
flower, or the swimming pond lily,
but yu are good for greens. Dandy
lion greens are not only the fust but
the cheapest greens in the market.)
When yu cum, spring haz cum too
so haz the singing frog, and the kak-
ling hen proklaims "A nu born egg in
honor ov yure arrival.
Don't fail to cum each year, mi SAT
from buty; the ritch and the lofty
may not harp yure prsizes, but who
cares for that, yu are the fust born
ov natures pets, yu are innocent and
tuff.
should miss yu more than emmy
flower that giids the turf.
If waz poet, would weave yu
into lines. Yu should shine in stanza
and gro more golden in mello verse.
Yu have no nobel pedigree, no
klaasik name; no royal history, but
WI are a flower, the poor mans friend
lifting up yure round and velvet face,
cluss beside her threshold.
Yu amt worth five cents dozen
at the floral mart, but golden dol
lar kant buy yu ov me, the one /
gather the fust ov spring, or last ov
winter, braveiy growing kiuss beside
the melting sac DRIFT. s,s s g.
THE VIOLET.
Little blu eyed innocent siw yu
one year ago this very day, i'll this
sam. cold and suiless spot, (perlIaps
it might have beea yurc sister, fur
away from human eyes, or human
footsteps.
1t waz winter thea, 50 it IL now, but
they call it spring.
II yu could only tell me yure his
tory, how gladly would listen.
Yu are too gentle for this cheer
less place, do the fiirys visit yu, and
whisper words of hopcf
You needn't hang yure he'd, nor
tremblc, | won't hurt yu, gladly would
Iswop places with yu, negIekted az
yu are, yu kant be lost, | may be.
would lift you up and take yu
WHARF the andylion IL lafiing in the
sun, but yu are too modest to liv thare
long.
Stay right WHARF yu are, little in
nocent, the fust luz six maiden cum
akrost will send to keep yu COM
pany. She will have lot ov silly
and soft things to tell yu.
Yu kan laif at her, or pity her, just
az yu pleaze. #Jfaa a4H
Good bye, little violet, dry the tear
in yure eye, AMI let me see you laff
just once.
Thank yu, little bird, for that smile
Good bye, good bye.
THE sun FLOWER.
Great, good-natured herb! please
accept mi thanks.
1 like yu bckausc yu are so big and
blunt.
lrather like the way yu stare at
folks. Yu amt afrade, bekause yu
know full well that yu are natral.
like yurc CRATE honest face, az
big az a putcr platter. Thare is no
milk and water in it, thare is no guile
in it.
Yu are az faithful, and az true az a
pocket compass.
I like to see a whole lot OF you
looking over the garden wall, stand
ing in single file, with yure broad
and pok-marked countenances all
wuss stareing at the sun.
When the sun Gums galloping up
from the east, every one ov yu are
gazing at it, and when 1t goes down
to bed at night in the west, yure faces
arc all turned that way.
Are WI astronomers, mi dear, phil
osophik herbsa c
Yu have but little fragrance, but fu
kan beat yu for good old-fashioned
common sense.
Yu ain't gaudy iiirt no Miss
!. Nancy scnkinar nrAisn frnm every