THE GRANDPA.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3177, 25 April 1879, Page 2

THE GRANDPA.

He is an individual aged somewhere between fifty and one hundred years, and is a common occurrence in most wellregulated families. They are the standard authority on all leading subjects, . and what they don't know atooat things that happened sixty-five years ago, or what will happen for the next three years to come, is a damage for everybody to know. Grandpas are not entirely useless. , They are handy to hold babies and . feed pigs, and are very smart at mending broken broom-handles, or putting up the clothes-line on washing days. I have grandpas that churn good, but I consider it a mighty mean trick to Set an old man over eighty years to churning butter. I am willing to rock the baby while women folks are boiling soap; I am ready to ' out rags to work into rag carpets; they oan keep me hunting hens' eggs, or picking green currants; or I will even dip candles, or core apples for sauce—but I won't churn, I have examined myself . on the subject, and will back a jack-knife that Josh.Billings won't churn. Grandpas are poor h«lp at bringing up children. They are full of precept and catechism, , but the young ones all seem to understand that grandpa minds them a heap more than they mind grandpa.—'Josh Billings.