The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-04-20
ANI1IILE STITISTIX.

Kats are affectionate, they luv young
chickens, sweet kream, and the best
place in front of the fireplace
Dogs are faithful, they will stick to a
bone after everybody haz deserted it.
PARROTS are easily edukated, but they
will learn to swear well in half the time
they will learn rnnything else.
The birds eat bugs and worms for
plain whites, but their dessert kOnsists
of the best cherrys and gooseberries in
the garden.
The owl IL only picture NV wisdum
by dalite, when he kant see emmy thing
When it Gums mite hiz wisdum wholly
konsists in ketching field mouse, if he
kan.
The donkey is an emblem of pachunce
but if YOU study them klosser yu will
find that lazyness is what's the matter
ov them.
The eagle is the monark of the skies
but the little king-bird will chase hin
to his hiding pace.
The OK knoweth hiz masters krib, anC
that il all he duz kno or care about hi
master.
Monkeys are imitatiff, but if they
kant immitate some deviltry they ain
happy. -,
The goose is like all other phocls-all
wuss seems anxious to prove it.
II mules are ever meek it is simply be
cauze they are ashamed ov themselfs, but
mules are hibrid, amt accountable for
anything.
The bees are bizzy people; rather
than be idle they will rob each other oV
their bunny.
The kockroach is a loafer, and don't
seem to live so much on what they eat
as what they kan get into.
Ducks are only cunning about one
thing; they lay their eggs in stitch sly
places that sumtimes they kant ind
them again themselfs.
The mushrat kan foresee hard win
ter and provide for it, but he can't keep
from gettin ketched in the sylliest kind
ov trap.
Hens kno when 1t is a-going to rain,
and shelter themselfs, but they will try
to hatch out a glass egg just az honest
az they will one ov their OVID.
Mudturkles are the slowest ov emmy
four-l gged kritters, and yet they are
allwuss on the move, trieing to git some
whar else.
Hornets hav more fight in them than
ennything ov their size, but there IL nc
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 IL the most natural ov all
thiefs; they will steal, and hide, what il
ev no use to them, nor loss to emmy body
else.
Ants are the biggest ov all the little
or big bugs, but large share Ov theil
time is spent in repairing their houses
which are built WHARF folks kant helI
but step on them.
Flies toll not, neither do they spin
yet theJ have the first taste ov all the
best gravys in the laud.
The cuckoo IL the grstest ekonemist
amung the birds; she lays her eggs il
other birds's nests, and lets them hatcl
them out at their leizure.
Rats bav fewer friends and more enc
mys than anything of the fOur-leggeC
purswashun on the face of the earth, anC
yet rats are az plenty now az in the
palmyest days ov the Roman empire.
Ov all things lazy the sloth wears the
belt, and yet his lazyness is all there il
interesting about him.
The frog dodgeth when it lightens, anC
the tud gaps when the thunder bellows
The kro bids her nest ov silk, tn,
swallo ov mud, the squirrels oy leaves
the wren ov feathers and wool, and thu
wOodpecker digs a hole for his eggs il
the rotten trees.
The sarpent and the krab change thei
clothing each year, and the rackcooI
lives all winter long on the memory o.
what he ct in the summer.
The horse allwus gifts up from thu
ground on his fore legs first, the kow Oh
her hind ones, and the dog turns arounC
three times before he hes down.
The kangaroo he jumps when he walks
the econ PAGES when he trets, and tn,
| lobster travels backwards az fast az h.
kan forwards.
The elephant haz the least, and thu
rabbit the most eye for their size, and 1
rats tale IL just the length ov hiz boldly
The spider IL the only kritter tina
ketches its food in a trap, and sheer
will liv without water longer than enn!
domestick animal
The fox is the hardest to ketch in {
trap, and muskrat the eazyest, and the
meddo lark IL the shyest ov all the birds
ov the air.
The kro flies six miles, and the wilC
pidgeon sixty an hour, but the humminl
bird beats all things on the wing.
The horse will eat ten hours out o,
twelve; the OK lays down and chews hi;
kud half the time; and the hog nevei
knows what it IL not to be hungry.
The wild turkey kan run faster than
he kan fly, and emmy man who is good
walker kan tire deer out in twenty.
four hours.
l kant think, in konklusion, of envy.
thing just now, in art, science, or nor
atty, that mankind excel in, but what
kan be found, more or less developed, in
the bugs, beasts, birds and tishes.-JosE
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