Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-04-25

tionate, they luv young chlckens, sweet
kream, and the best place in front of
the fireplace.
Dogs are faithful. they will stick to
bone after everybody else haz deserted
it. E-yL & ~ ~
Parrots are eazily edukated, but they
will learn to swear well in haff the time
they will learn ennything else.
The birds eat bugs and worms for
plain vittles, but their dessert konsists
ov the best cherrys and gooseberries In
the garden.
The owl IL only picture ov wisdum
by dalite, when he kant see emmy
thing. When it Gums mite hiz wisdum
wholly konsists in ketching a field
mouse if he kan.
The donkey liz an emblem ov pa
chunce, but If you study them klosser,
WI will find that lazyness liz what's the
matter ov them.
The eagle il the monark ov the skies,
but the little king-bird will chase him
to his hiding place.
The OK knoweth hiz masters krib,
and that iz all he duz kno, or care about
hiz master. -asi --
Munkeys are imitatif, but if they
kant immitate some deviltry they amt
happy.
The goose il like other phools-all-
wuss seems anxious to prove it.
If mules are ever meek it liz simply
becauze they are ashamed ov themselfs,
but mules are hibrid, amt accountable
for ennything.
The bees are q bizzy people; rather
than be idle they will rob each other
ov their hunny.
The kOckroach IL a loafer, and dom t
seem to live SO much on what they eat
as what they kan git into.
Ducks are only cunning about one
thing; ther lay their eggs in stitch sly
places that sumtimes they kant find
them again themselfs.
The muskrat kan foresee hard winter
and provide for it, but he can't keep
from gettin ketched in the sylliest kind
ov trap. ....a- ..
Hens kno when 1t is a-going to rain,
and shelter themselfs, but they will try
to hatch out glass egg just az honest
az they will one ov their own.
Mudturkles are the slowest ov emmy
four-legged kritters, and yet they are
allwuss on the move, trieing to git
somewhare else.
Hornets hav more fight in them than
ennything ov their size, but there il no
method in their madness; they will
pitch into a meeting house when they
are furious, just az anxious az they will
INTO sleeping baby in its kradle.
The kro liz the most natral ov all
thiefs; they will steal, and hi1e, what
il OF no use to them, nor loss to emmy
boldly else. -Er-E
Ants are the bizzyest ov all the little,
or big bugs, but large share ov their
time iz spent in repairing their houses,
which are bilt WHARF folks kant help
but step on them.
Flies toll not, neither do they spin,
yet they hav tine first taste oy all the
best gravys in the land.
The cuckcoo IL the gratest ekonemIst
amung the birds; she lays her eggs i'm
other birds nests, and lets them hatch
them out at their Ieizure.
Rats hav fewer friends and more
enemys than anything of the four-iegged
purswashun on the face of the earth,
and yet rats are az plenty now az in th e
palmyest days ov the Roman Empire.
Ov all things lazy the sloth wears the
belt, and yet his lazyness is all thare is
interesting about him.
The frog dodgeth when it lightens.
and the tud gaps when the thunder
bellows.
The kro bids her nest ov stix, the
swalio ov mud, the squirrels ov leaves,
the wren ov feathers and wool, and the
woodpecker digs hole for his eggs in
the rotten trees.
The sarpent and the krab change
their clothing each year. and the rack
coon lives all winter long on the memory
oy what he ct in the summer.
The horse allwus gifts up from the
ground on his fore legs first, the kow
ON her hind ones, and the dog turns
around times before he lies down.,
the kangaroo he jumps when he
walks, the coon PAGES when he trots,
and the lobster travels backward az fast
az he kan forwards.
The elephant haz the least, and the
rabbit the most eye for their size, and a
rats tale IL just the length ov hiz
boldly.
The spider IL the only kritter that
ketches Its food in trap, and sheep
will liv without water longer than emmy
domestick animal.
The fox iz the hardest to ketch in a
trap, and muskrat the eazyiest, and
the meddo lark liz the shyest oy all the
birds Ov the air.
The kro flies miles, and the wild
pidgeon 90 an hour, but the bumming
birds beats all things on the wing.
The horse will eat 10 hours out OF
every II; the OK lays down and chews
hiz kud haf the time; and the hog
never knows what il il not to be hungry.
The wild turkey kan run faster than
he kan ny, and emmy man who is a good
walker kan tire deer out in "a hours.
1 kant think, in konklusion, ov emmy
thing just now, in art, science, or
morality, that mankind excel in, but
Kan be found, more or less developed.
in the bugs, beasts, birds, and fishes
Josh Billings.