Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-04-11

Animile StatiStiX,
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 f
bone after everybody else haz deserted it
PARROTS are eazily edukated, but they
will learn to swear well in haff the time
they will learn emmy thing else.
he birds eat bugs and worms for plain
viltles, but their dessert konsiss ov the
best cherrys and gooscberries there is in
the garden.
The owl IL only picture of wisdum by
dalight, when he kant see emmy thing
When it Gums mite lwisdum wholly kon-
sists in ketching a field mouse if he can.
The donkey is an emblem of pachunce,
but if yu study them klosser yu will find
that lazynesS IL what's the matter ov them.
The eagle IL the monark ov the skies,
but the little king bird will chase him tn
hiz hiding place.
The OK knoweth hiz masters krib, and
that iz all he duz kno or care about biz
master
Munkeys are imitatiff, but if they kant
initiate sum devillry they amt happy.
The goose IL like all other phools-all-
wuss seems anxious tu prove it.
II mules are ever meek it il simply be-
cauze they are ashamed ov themsells, but
mules are hibrid amt accountable for en-
ny thing.
The bees are a bizzy people; rather
than be idle they will rob each other ov
their hunny
The kockroach is loafer, and don't
seem to live SO mutch on what they eat rs
what they kan git into.
Ducks are only cunning about one thing
they lay their eggs in stitch sly places that
suntimes they kant find them agin them
sells.
The muskrat kan foresee hard winter
and provide for it, but he kant keep from
gettin' ketched in the syliest kind of a
trap.
Hens kno when it IL a-going to rain, and
shelter themsefs, but they will try to hatch
out glass egg just as honest us 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 get sumwhere else.
Hornets hav more fight in them than
emmy thing ov their size, but there IL no
method in their madness; they will pitch
into meeting house when they are fu-
rious just az they will into Il sleeping baby
in its kradle.
The kro IL the most nat raj ov all thiefs
they will steal and hide what IL ov no use
to them nor loss to emmy boldly 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 bilt where folks kant help but step on
them.
Flies toll not, neither do they spin, yet
they hav the first taste ov all the best
gravys in the land.
The cuckcoo is the greatest ekonemist
among the birds, she lays her eggs in 9th
er birds nests. and lets them hatch them
out at their leizure.
Rats hay fewer friends and more enemys
than anything of the four-legged perswa-
>hum on the face OF the earth, and vet rats
are as plenty now as in the palmyest days
ov the Roman empire.
Oy all things lazy the sloth wears the
belt, and yet his lazyness iz I'LL there IL in
tercsling about him.
Thc frog dodgeth when it lightens, and
the tud gaps when the thunder bellows.
The kro bids her nest ov stix. the swal-
low ov mud, the squirrels ov leaves, the
wren of ov feathers and wool, and tho
wood-pecker digs II hole for his eggs in
| the rotten trees.
The sarpent and the krab change their
clothing each year, and the rackcoon lives
all winter long on the memory ov what he
ct in the summer.
The horse allwus gifts up from the
ground on his fore legs first, and the COW
on her hind ones, and the dog turns around
three times before he lies down.
The kangaroo he jumps when he walks
the coon PAGES when he trots, aud The lob
ster travels backwards NJ fast az he kan
forwards.
The elephant haz the least, and the rab.
bit the most eye for their size, and il rats
tail il Just the length ov his boldly.
Tha spider IL the only critter that ketch
es its food in a trap, and sheep will live
without water longer than emmy domestick
animile.
The fox is the hardest to ketch in tral
and muskrat the eazyest, and the mt ddc
lark IL the shyest ov all the birds ov the
air
The kro flies miles, and the wild pig
con 60 an hour, but the humming-b brC
beats all things on the wing.
The horse will eat 10 hours out ov every
10; the OK lays down and chews his kuc
half the time; and the hog never knows
what it is to be hungry.
The wild turkey kan run faster than he
kan fly, and emmy man who is a gooC
walker can tire deer out in "a hours.
| kant think, in konklusion, of emmy
thing just now, in art, science or morality
that mankind excel in, but what can bt
found, more or less developed, in the bugs
beasts, birds and fishes.