A fust rate whissler iz like a middling sized fiddler, good for nothing else, and tho whissling may keep a man from gitting lonesum, it wont keep him from gitting ragged.
I never knu a bee hunter but what waz a good whissler, and i dont kno ov enny bizzness on the breast ov the earth that will make a man so lazy and useless, without acktually killing him, az hunting bees in the wilderness.
Hunting bees and writing seckond rate verses are evidences ov sum genius, but either of them will unfit a man for doing a good square day’s work.
HOTELS.
Hotels are houses ov refuge, homes for the vagrants, the married man’s retreat, and the bachelor’s fireside.
They are kept in all sorts ov ways, sum on the European plan, and menny ov them on no plan at all.
A good landlord iz like a good stepmother, he knows hiz bizzness and means to do hiz duty.
He knows how to rub hiz hands with joy when the traveler draws nigh, he knows how to smile, he knew yure wife’s father when he waz living, and yure wife’s fust husband, but he don’t speak about him.
He kan tell whether it will rain to-morrow or not, he hears yure komplaints with a tear in hiz eye, he blows up the servants at yure suggestion, and stands around reddy, with a shirt collar az stiff az broken china.
A man may be a good supream court judge and at the same time be a miserable landlord.