GENIUS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2994, 29 January 1881, Page 4

GENIUS.

By Josh Biixingb. A big genius is generally a phool; he knows how to do one or two things so much, that he am' fife to do ennything else ; he is like a grahound, good for running fast, that's all. Yu kant lam him noting, enny more than you kan an eagle ; he knows how to fill up and look ab the sun without winking, bekause he was born so, and when he gets up on the peak of fcho mountain and gets well lit, you kanfc gifc tew him, nor he won't cum tew you, but there he sits till the dinner-bell rings. After dinner he flize uph again, and you won't see him till suppertime. They are like mumys, verry curis critters, and keep a long time without spileing. If tha only had common sense, so that yu kould make taylers or shumakers ov them, thare would be some sense ov having the breed more plenty, but one or two iz all that is profitable two hay on hand tew onsb, and tha are enough to keep ennybody xineazy about what they are going tew clew next. Tha live about forty years ahead of the times and when the world ketches up •with the last one, another iz born, who spends moste of his time in digging up tho old bones that the last one buried. About the only thing they sho enny common sense in iz, tha most alwas die in tow every bodey. The moste unfortunate thing about having a big geuins on hand iz, that so many try tew imitate them, but they don't generally get any further up than their vices, and thus one big genius suctles a thousand phools. They don't generally liv happy, bekause they ain't built to fit things as they find them. They ought tew hare a grate

place tew stop in, whare thare ain't nothing but big generalities to dew, and whare they kau play tost and ketch with tho stars, and jrack, nuts with mountains. They are :urious critters. They ain't afraid tew itraddle a hurry cane without enny briddle in, and stick in the spurs ; bub a mice libbling in the wanescut will drive them larheaded into the streets. They kan plant, ait they won't kultivate nor reap. If I raz a woman, I would az soon marry a orcupine as a big genius ; thoy are either z hot az tho stove in a skoolhouse, or as old and unfeeling az tho shoes on a ded mnibus hos. A genius iz like a big comet, hey appear onse in about so often, and nakes everybody nervious, and t.hen lisappear ; ancl though we may not at the ime be able to put our fingure3 on the ndividual good they have done us, still heir visit is a big one, and the great reseroys are pumped up fuller, and we poor nen, the rest ov us, when we stick our little ountains, find that tho waters have been iweetened and freshened by suinebody.