The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-04-02
Some Short Observations.

WuSQ boy on SiSu SIlUGS uOWu
hill on the snow and goes clear through
a fence, that's gravity; but when the
sled has to go up the hill again, that's
the boys muscle which pulls it by
rope. Gravity only travels one way on
a sled.
II You will stick a pin through a
humbIe-bee into the window sill, it will
buzz On with its cheerful music all the
same like it was out of doors over a
flower; but if you will pinch your small
brother when he won't mind you, then,
maybe, you had better take your hat
and go out and split some wood, or
something, and whistle careless.
They say there is a Electricity in q
cats back but if you will rub strange
yellow one long enough to try to find
it, maybe you had better LET the lee
tricity went. Anyway, that's my advice
to children.
If all the forest tire, would grow
crooked and with hard knots in, then
your father would have to hire a man
to split the wood; but there wouldn't
be so many pine RATS to swim on the
outside of in summer, and you would
have to carry In more coal in winter,
and so it would be about even.
When you go off fishing and bring
home only long string of small clubs,
if you ask your mother to let you cook
EN-, there will be dreadful fuss. But
when she has got company for tea, then
wish you would please listen to hear
her make a bigger fuss when your
father forgets to bring home a box of
sardines. That's a curious way.
If a sweet potato grows in the ground
with the sugar already IN, then what's
the reason that a Irish potato don't
grow already sailed?
The best way for certain to find out
If ice will bear you, is to coax 8 bigger
boy to go on first, and then lend him
your skates when you have got to go
home before dark.
If Mr.. General George Washington
did Almost ruin a cherry tree with a
sharp Ratchet, he had the sand to own
it up to his father when he was small
boy but I would like to see some
Louisville hair-pins nowadays as would
do it.
You can go to the minstrels half-price
for twenty-five cents, if you have got
the quarter, but there has been a brass
band concert from Boston at Public Lii
brary hall which it took fifty dollars to
buy a ticket and go in. Minstrels is
good enough for me, and so I'd rather
save up the rest of the money, when ]
get 1t, and buy steamboat and a cir
CAS-.
A school-teacher will always stick to
1T that water always runs down hill; but
then what is the reason that sugar
water will run up tree
It's a sure fact that if you feed a
small blsck-and-tan pup on whisky be
won't grow any bigger, because tried
1t with spoon on my COly, and he's
dead.
When you go to bed and dream tran.
quill that you have got a new pair OF
boots with square bOx-tOes and red tops,
and then have to put on your old shoes
when you get up in the morning, it will
disappOint you so rough as to make
you miserable and nearly sick.
a small piece of round cork dipped
IN the black ink, with some horse hair
legs in, and the whole business tied to
fine thread, is a good enough dead
spider to drop down quiet and easy be-
fore boys nose which is smaller than
you and timid.
There was poet named Jim John
son, but he's dead, because they say
that poets most Usually die when
they're small. When they had prayers
one morning in school, a mouse ran uE
the bell-rOpe and Jim made some
poetry so loud that the teacher heard
him. This was the first verse:
There was a mouse in time OF prayers,
Went up rope for want of stairs"
Here the teacher got mad and toIC
him that she should trounce him a few
if he didn't get off another verse, anC
so he said
81 Here I stand afore Miss Blodget
When she strikes I'm going to dodge it.
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and was thankful. Courier. Journal.