Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1883 — Little Johnny About the Pig. [ARTICLE]

Little Johnny About the Pig.

One time I was in Mister Brily’s shop and he had cut off a pig’s head and set it on top of a bar’l, and old Gaffer Peters he cum in and seen it, and he sed, old Gaffer did: “Mister Brily, yure pig is a gitten out.” Mr. Brily he Inked and then he said: “That so, Gaffer, you jest take that stick and rap him on the nose fore he can draw it in.” So Gaffer he tuke the stick and snook ■up reel sli, and fetched the pig’s hed a regular nose-wiper, hard as ever he cude with the stick, and kanocked the pigs hed off the bar’l, and you never seen sech a stonish ole man! But Mr. Brily he ptended like he wesn’t a lookn, and ole Gaffer he sed: “Mister Brily, you must excuse me, but wen I struck at that pig it dodged and cut its hed off agin the edge of the bar’l.”— The Argonaut.

Pbof. J. P. Stelle, of Alabama, is down on wfiat he calls the “carp farce.” He thinks the carp is no better than the buffalo fish. He calls it the “aquatic buzzard,” and says it is the “meanest fish <4 any waters; a nasty, grisly-fleshed kind of mud-sucker, winch digs in the muck and feeds on decaying substances. Gobtschakoff, who was a great linguist, once said, in reply to a remark relative to his power to keep state secrets, that he knew how to hold his tongue in six languages.