The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-02-17
THE AvARICIous sHEpHERDEss

THE AvAaIcIous szzpzERDzsl
FROM THE FRENCH OF DUFREsNEY.
Phillis, far more keen than tender,
By refusing, gaining nanght,
| Sold kiss unto Sylvander-
Thirty sheep the price il brought.
| Another bargain, ON the morrow,
Glad the shepherd was to keep
From the shepherdess he purchased
Thirty kisses for a sheep.
Next day, Phillis, grown more loving,
Lest the youth should take T aniss,
Was delighted to restore him
Thirty for single kiss.
Next dav, Phillis, most unwisely, thought
With flock and watchdog would have
The kiss which the inconstant shepherd
On Lissettc bestowed for naught.
1t is rumored that Prof. Brooks,
of Jackson, is being talked of as a suit
able person to take charge of the pub
lie school in Bolivar. Prof Brooks
stands high as an educator and succeed
ed well in developing the public school
system in jackson.
Last evening at the Fentress
House a dance was given by the
Bolivar boys in honor of the pres
ence of the six handsome gallants
from Somerville, who are here on Il
certain happy GRAND.
"A rumor was current on the streets
Tuesday, that negro man had been
filed full of bird shot, out at Mr.. Chas.
Woods farm, on Monday night
There seems to be no getting at the
"bottom facts" in the case, as the par
ties implicated, are trying to hush up
the affair.
IS. q. Miller and Henry Pearman
col. had an alteration on last Sunday
afternoon in Pearman's restaurant.
AS the affair will be a matter of judicial
Investigation, we refrain from giving
full particulars.
Some fellow in Collierville is
trying to make the world believe he
knows more than anybody else about
the comet which he says will posi-
lively destroy the earth this year.
But You can't comet over us in that
style. Wen meteor by and by.
The editor of paper had a note
sent to his office (tradition doesn't say
where) together with huge hickory
stick, nicely rolled in paper, and prop
erly directed. The note read: 81 see
you advertize if anybody will send you
L club, you viii send them a paper.
AS didn't know what you want of it,
unless it is to knock down subscribers
who don't pay, l hope you will have
good luck in carrying it."
Spelling reformcrs have been at
work throughout the North for six
or more, but they have neg
lectcd one thing. They have got to
provide just heow this nation is t.
pronounce keow, whether the Yam
KEGS bowit is to run down the Phila-
.lclphia bote, add whether it's Il
bawskit or basskut that we take to
Markut or to marki:. The New
Mariars and Lydiars will in
sist on readine and cookinc beine done
ACCORDING to their ideahs as teachahs-
and the Philadelphia Seusuns and
Catharuns will still struggull to make
their scholurs call dawg doch.
The survival Of the fittest in pronun-
citation is not yet, nor will it be until !
all the children are taught 10 read
Theoretically by deaf mutes. VIII N
we get to that happy climax it will
have been settled that somebody
some walking lexicon of the future
will pick up all the dropped g's of the
New Englander, and drag up the
Philadelphia rs and RS filom the ell.
down the throat to the
tip of the tongue, where the English
put them, But hefo' this, the do
must be shut in our OWE Soweth on
the rich oiliness of the African Saxon
talked here. It Is useless to refoam
the spelling of the nation until it
agrees to pronounce the hull of its
wuhds alike. as children of one
shood.
Ehriehs Fashion Quarterly.
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