The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-08
Some Short Observations.

When a boy on a sled slides down
hill on the snow and goes clear through
q f. nee, that's gravity; but when the
sled has to go up the hill again, that's
the boys muscle which pulls it by a
rope. Gravity only travels one way on
a sled.
II you will stick a pin through a
bumble-bee into the window-sill, it will
buzz on with its cheerful music all the
same like it was out of doors over g
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
cats back; but if you will rub a 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 man
to split the wood; but there wouldn't
be 80 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 a fishing and bring
home only long string of small clubs,
II 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 sweet potato grows in the ground
with the sugar already in, then what's
the reason that a Irish potato don't
grow already salted?
The best way for certain to find out
1t lee viii bear you, is to coax a bigger
boy to go on first, and then lend him
your skates when you have got to go
home before dark.
u MIR. General George Washington
did Almost roin cherry tree with a
sharp hatchet, he had the sand TO own
1t up to his father when he wss a small
boy; but l 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 ticket and go in. Minstre1s is
good enough for me, and so I'd rather
save up the rest of the money, when I
get 1t, and buy steamboat and a cir.
Gus
A school teacher will always stick to
1t that water always rams down hill; but
then what is the reason that sugar
water will run up a tree E?
It's a sure fact that if you feed a
small blsck-and-tau pup on whisky he
won't crrOvv INV hforoo,- 7
1t with spoon on my Coly, and he's
dead.
When you go to bed and dream tran
gull 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 viii /
dlsappolnt you so rough as to make 4
you miserable and nearly sick.
A small piece of round cork dipped /
in the black ink, with some horse-hair 4
legs IN, and the whole business tied to |
a fine thread, is a good enough dead /
spider to drop down quiet and easy be-
fore bows nose which is smaller than /
you and timid.
There was a 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 mornir e in sclool. mouse ran up /
the beli-rope and Jim made some /
poetry so loud that the teacher heard /
him. This was the first verse
There was mouse in time OF prayers,
Went up a rope for want OF stairs"
Here tho teacher got mad and told
him that she should tr0unce him few
Il he didn't get off another verse, and
so he said
Here I stand afore Miss Blodget.
When she strikes I'm going to do1ge it.
And so Jim got off with a whole skin
and was thankful. - Courier Journal