The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14
Limekiln Club Proceedings.

eff l had son dat war gwine out in
de world to seek his fortin'," began the
old man, as hush crept down the hall,
81 should say to him not to talk too
much, nor yet to be too silent. Dat
class of men who am allus shOotin' Oft
de mouf am no wus dan de class who
sot an sot an look as wise as owls, but
hev muffin to say. De one talks bekase
he doan' know how to keep still. De
odder keeps still bekase he doan' know
muffin to say. If dar eber was time
when a man who sOt an rolled his eyes
an puckered his mouf an kept his
tongue still was taken TO be some great
Gun of a filosofer, dat time has skipped
an will neber return. neber bet on a
man who talks too much, an l neber
trust de man who doan' talk at all.
What sarch fur am de happy middle
ground. Dat is, fur a man who knows
when to talk an when to keep his head
shet, when find him ] hitch right to
him wild chain an paddock. We will
now ambulate according to de reg lar
programme.
so UNDERSTOOD.
Ibid | understan' de President to
Rev. Penstock, as he suddenly bobbed
up in his seat.
"You did, sahr'
Ambulatep
Eyes, sab, ambulate."
"I-I-hardly-" ..
"You hardly bettah sit down, sahi
Dis Char knows de difference between
ambulate an ambulance to perfexshun,
and SIGH interrupshuns of de meetin' at
dis airly hour should be frowned down
by all good members"
Several Kisses were sent across the
hall at Penstock, and he dropped down
to be heard of no more. -...
ELECTION.
A. trip of the bean-boX resulted in
what Giveadam Jones termed the zen
sanguinous eleckshun'' of the follow
inc named gentlemen: Glasher Smith,
Colonel Fox, Rev. John Pickadyke, AL
titude SNOWFALL, Christmas Johnson,
Samuel Hoots and Treadwell Stone.
CAN'T HARMONIzE.
The Committee on Peace and Har-
mony reported that they had been act
lively engaged in an effort to bring
about harmony and good feeling be-
tween the men who pack six quarts of
peaches into a four-quart basket and
sell them for a peck, and the general
public who buy, but thus far all their
work had gone for naught. They had
wrestled with grocers who dump a peck
of half decayed pears into a bushel
basket and cover them over with sound
fruit, but they could not say that their
influence had been felt. They had
worked hard, accomplished nothing and
vere clear discouraged.
"In dischargin' de committee from
f1rder considerashun of de report" re-
piled Brother Gardner, 4 would say
dat l hadn't de faintest hope dat dey
would succeed in maxim a change. Jist
so long as we lib in dis world we will
obsarve dat de man who has an old COW
to sell will be lookin' for some way to
take de wrinkles off her horns an de-
ceive de buyer. When church deacon
in good standin' am privileged to file Oft
de teef of boss nineteen Y ars old an
sot his aige back to seven, too much
mus not be 'spected from de common
run O. folks, who wouldn't hev to plug
up worm-holes in apples if Natur' hadn't
cheated US by putin EN- dar Justly"
Several of the committees were rubbed
up about future work and as the clock
struck the hour for closing the Presi-
-ident raped for attention and said;
1--WE may make mistakes an we may
err in Judgment, an circumstances may
sometimes put US in a false posishun,
but none of us kin cher hev de leas' ex-
cuse for forgittin' dat half of de road
belongs to de odder Vaughn. De pusson
who am dedicated huff TO know his own
rights neber tramples on de rights of
odders. When you find man so pulled
up an swelled out wild his own 'por-
lance dat he can't see muffin but ribs in
his fellow-men, make up your mind dat
dar will be 'sploshun and dat he will
be de only pusson hurt. We will now
sarch out our hats, wake up Elder Toots
and let this hall relapse into silence. y
Detroit Free Press.
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