AGRICULTURAINOTES BY JOSH BILLINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 452, 22 June 1871, Page 2

AGRICULTURAINOTES BY JOSH BILLINGS.

"(Jow's JlQfcx."— T}> bony projedgmtras or > crooked or strate, woi bi the cowb on tbe [^ apeak aof their beds, f' ornament in time or peace,and used when ley go into war ,t«w ■ .... 'stab"with!/'' '-"J- ' " ' ' i' Theze horns are a kid or family record. ' i At three years ; ojd ling pa < P^j*ljM bottom or the !iqra ijxfc- tew -t^ejtjecl, anft^-j each year'after a'Freßhing iz born. > „ '. V( jy/^-fS In tkis way the cowl krib hdw old tney'"^^. 4,'^.! Sometimes theze riitei fill o®^ o!*!^^!, "11 and grow off into the'adjoining ftn'cesj ijii'ffi^' l^| pasture'lot, but this ba\y happens tew" Terr. ' , oid«sowir / , - ' :i2 I never inu it tew hippenin mi life,- and I - -*| don't, think it over dii, it iz one or (hem ■Tenerable lies that aB handed down from ■; father to son, just tew reep the stock ov lies I from:running out. When I waz a boy tnd had just begun tew chew, tobacco, i waz tod that butter cum from ■ the cow's horn—i harj eince "fotiiM.' o"ut tnat* f this iz another cussed pld lie. *" An old toper, who M attended the Poly* technic where the learned profession caused explosions to take pljie from gases produced from water, said:'-('You don't catch. in«

puttiag witir mmy jquor after this. I had no idea before that -^ter was io dangerous though I never likedjo take much of it." t f?,po you believe ii the rod m bii instrument of discipline P'j a'iked brasher,'" of '%' Q school-teacher in +<Ne|aclßy Vtp -whom} the h»4»^ : takejn her, unruly.^iv^JW wdwpe." ;*»OS* ~ I'm feo gladi What Io tousuVwtituteJfor ifcH 1 " The 'revolver, madline." Exit, mother an* unruly son.., At a railway statim. in fcho. Black Country the other day, an ai|srcation occurred betwotn the station-master, land a huge collier, the occupant of arthid-olass carriage. "You .must pay.for the< Sfet I; 'teH yojj,", wid th« . _ stat^on-inaster, poiitiag to a line ipeciineuof H the bill- type, wht(ll! -isatj bandy-legged a«i»( t blinking serenely, bjneath theieat: " JLaho/'."..,.; returned the oollierjcurfcly. U^ Then h* .InUijt como|" but," rejoiied tlie station-master. :"F6t«khimput't&m.V. L^e>-Jctog l L seemiug to undierstand it all, vcon'rted his ffiaitir'i"in~' * r Titaiion.by a slight ifting of the. upper ljpand a wicked gleam in Us eyes. He Went'dn by thalj train, and no, fire was paid for him. ~ ' " , Henry Clay used to cay that there^^re <hm classes of people wiii whom it never was safe to quarrel. " Pirsti ministers—for the reason n they had.pulpitsiVoui; which:(theyi could,<de- ,U nounce me, and I iad none from .which to -- : reply. Secondly, jsditbri}--for; fc^ej . had Jfte most powerful ougiies, from wlrieh-they could — every day. hurl wr^th aii^ ajpon: infj\ »nd I had noue through whjoh ,to -reply; finally, with wora<n —forthej *oul4" have the-" ~" last word.»nyihow.* ,;-.; \:, ■ ;', *;.,:V i.■ ,->! ■. ■' -