Their happiness seems tew be alwus drawn from the top ov their misery.
Rather than not be able tew find enny fault, they wouldn't hezitate tew say tew an angle-worm, that his tail was altogether too long for the rest of his boddy.
They keep up a kind ov running fight, all their lives, with evry thing they cum across, but seldum ever win a battle; they are like a second-rate bull terrier, alwus a fighting and alwus a gitting licked.
LXXIV.
JOSH DOES UP HIS CORRESPONDENCE.
"Bushrod."—I got yure faver bi this morning's mail, and taking oph mi cut, and rooling up mi sleeves, and spitting on mi hands, repli az follers:
If yu have got plenty ov brains, and no money, Nu York citty iz a good place tew cum to, but if yu hav got plenty ov money, and no brains, stay right whare yu are, and keep in the house most always.
A ritch phool, in this citty, iz soon smelt out, and then don't last enny longer than a nuzeboy's brekfast.
If you haint got enny money, nor enny brains, steal a cow, the fust good chance yu kan git, and live quietly on the milk.