I was once asked if mi fourfathers was Englishmen. I told the illiterate cuss, who propagated the question, that i didn't hav but one father, and he was strictly ov the Massachewsetts purswashun.
Good wit iz sumthing like good luck,—the more soon and unexpekted it iz, the better.
XLIV.
ESSA ON SWINE.
Hogs generally are quadriped.
The extreme length ov their antiquity haz never been fully discovered; they existed a long time before the flood, and hav existed a long time since.
There iz a grate deal ov internal revenew in a hog, thare ain't mutch more waste in them than thare iz in a oyster.