JOSH BILLINGS ON GRANDPAS

Waikato Times, Issue 837, 30 October 1877, Page 3

JOSH BILLINGS ON GRANDPAS

The grandpa* is tin individual aged somewhere between fifty and one hundred years, and is a common occurrence in most' families. -Next heallpb>y. mother-in-law, they have no .moj?e bizness than copy btiei* jpaytj jjj

the*TOs^ dard topicksj and~what they dWt-know about things that happened, ,six':y -five' 'ye'ari #go; or what will happen lor the next.three, years.to come, is a damage'/for. everybody to _kno'. Gsandpas are not ei.tirely useless; they tare 1 handy'to hold babies, and feed pigs,^and;are ivery smart at mending broken brdomJiandles or putting up the clothes line on washing days. I hevseen grandpas that churn good, but I konsider it a mighty mean trick to set an old 'man over eighty years of age to churn butter lam willing to rock■ the baby while wimmen folks are biling soap; lam reddy to cut rags to work into red carpets ; they can keep me hunting hen ? s eggs, or picking green kurrants ', or I will even dip kandles or kore apples for sas, but £ won't churn. I have examined myself on the subject, and will bet a jacknife that Josh Billings won't churn. Grandpas are poor help, at bringing up children, they; are.full of precept and katekism but the young ones all seem to understand that grandpa minds them a heap; more than they ■■ mind grandpa. .■• _ ■ ''-