Richland beacon., 1877-04-21
yINIL STATISIX.


will learn to swear well in half the time
thew will learn ennything else.
The birds eat bugs and worms for
plain vittles, but their dessert konsists
of the best cherrys and gooseberries IN
the garden.
The owl il only picture NV wisdum
bv 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 i, the monark of the skies,
but the little king-bird will chase him
to his hiding place.
The OK knoweth hiz masters krib, and
that il all he duz knO or care about hiz
master.
Nunkevs are imitatiff, but if they
kant immitate some deviltry they amt
happy. -
TIE goose is like all other phoc ls-all-
wuss seems anxious to prove 1t.
Ifmules are ever meek it is simply be-
cauze they are ashamed ov themselfs, but
mules are hibrid, amt accountable Tor
anything.
The bees are a bizzy people; rather
than be idle they will rob each other ov
their bunny. =
The kockroach is 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 a 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 glass egg just az honest
az they will one Ov their own.
| Mudturkles are the slowest ov emmy
four-lt cged 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 liz no
method in their madness; they will pitch
into a meeting house when they are
furious, just az anxious az they will into
a 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 bizzyest ov all the little,
or big bugs, but large share ov their
time is spent in repairing their houses,
which are built WHARF folks kant help
but step on them.
Flies toll not, neither do they spin,
vet the5 have the first taste ov all the
best grAvys in the laud.
The cuckoo il the gratest ekOnemist
amung the birds; she lays her eggs in
ether birds's nests, and lets them hatch
them out at their leizure.
Rats bav fewer friends and more enc
mys than anything of the four-legged
purswashun on the face of the earth, and
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
in eresting about him.
The frog dodgeth when it lightens, and
' the tud gaps when the thunder bellows
The kro bids her nest ov silk, the
swalle ov mud, the squirrels Ov leaves
TIE wren ov feathers and wool, and the
woodpecker digs hole for his eggs il
the rotten trees.
The sarpent and the krab change theil
clothing each year, and the rackcoor
lives all winter long on the memory o.
what he ct in the summer.
l The horse allwus gifts up from TIL
ground on his fore legs first, the kow OF
, her hind ones, and the dog turns aroun'
three times before he lies down.
The kangaroo he jumps when he walks
the coon PAGES when he trets, and tn
: lobster travels backwards az fast az h
kan forwards.
= The elephant haz the least, and tn
rabbit the most eye for their size, and
5 rats tale il lust the length ov hiz boldly