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What Josh Billings Wants To Know

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
July
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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Wby a turkey's egg is speckled, and a duok's egg blue. Whether i log ñoatsíaster m tho nvcr than tho current run?, ox nol. Why a goose stands fuut on onc leg nnJ thon on tother. Why rabbite havo a short tal? aud kats have á long one. . Why most all tho burda biuld their nests out of different material. Why lightiiing liever was luiown to strike a beach tree. Why the male among the ieathered race do all the singiug. Why the blak snaik iz the only snaik in bis country that kan klimb a tree. Why a musk rat's talo has no fur on it, and a mink's haz. Why a (juairs oggis round, aud a hen s (Mïg iz pointed. Why a beat alwuHS elinibs down a tree baokwards. Why a mule's bonea aro all Bolid, and thcir eaï8 twicH! au long ftü a horseB, Wliv a dog alwuss tums iroand three timos before be lies down. Why a horso ilwuss gits oph lrom tho round on liis fpxward i'ect lust. Why, when B, man gets lost in tho woods, pr on tho plains, he alwuas n-alks in :i oirkli'. Why t pig gathers straw iu lus moutli ;iud mus about with tlicm just beforo a min :4]-)n. Why natiir avüI ajlow ono 0ÏO8S betweenapmó auimato aÜÜ tbeaallow ño more. Wlierotlio ilys will uil go when the oold wcutlicr seta ni, "int where feuey vil cum iïom so smldonlyiK-xt kuiuiuci-. Wby il hcu alwnss kttows her httic ouea from auothera, and wliy Bbe Wil hutchont twedva diu-k eggs and topak thav :ivi hM' owii obiekoHS, Wliy au oystor imda klam are the mily liliuga i kilo OT witli animal life that don't liav In nuiv out OÍ thi'ir placen to irit a liviug. There is lote qf hily püdikatoilpooplo who won't helieve the book of Genesis bekajise Üxey kau't prove it, who knn'f answer komVtly -tliird of the ftboye qeations. EItbawhbrries h:ve attaifleü Bncü n size that tlie long lost biother's arm ifl of no avail, aiul thé mark has to be planted in the midctle of hls baok.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus