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Billingsgate

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
March
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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When a man gits his liarte broke he generally puts it to soak üi -whisky. The Btrongest kind ov mon are those who hav got the inost wenknesses and kno it. The grate weakness ov most people lays in the fakt that th.eir nabors kno theni better than they th ixnsolf B. I notiss onc thing, the man who rides on the kars every day iz satisfied with one seat, bnt the man who rides once a year wants at least 4. Lasting reputations are a slow growih. The man who wakes np íamus sum morning iz quite apt to go to bed sum night and sleep it all off. Friendship don't appoar to be enny thing more than a bizzness opcrnshuu, into which men put a certain amonnt ov kapital, and then commence trading upon it. Young man, husband yuro plezzures ; thaie iz not only more fun but more length to the fun in sucking sider thïu a straw than drinking it out ov a fourquart pitcher. Bewar ov the sli and suepif-hus kritter, the man who knows there iz a going to I be suelden rise in hens' eggs, and kant ! teil it without taking yu out beland the ! barn to whisper it in yuro car. I wouldn't give 10 cents a yard for all the pedigree in tliis world; if a man haz got a level head on his shoulders, and an honest harte in hiz body, he haz got all the pedigree i am in search ov. I am allwuss a little suspishus ov the old phellow who iz forever preaching morality and the 10 commandments; i often flnd that hiz morality dates no i fartherbak than the time that the kandie j ov hiz own pashuns went out.

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Old News
Michigan Argus