Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1887 — Negro Aphorisms. [ARTICLE]

Negro Aphorisms.

Do candy-pullin' kiu call louder dam do log-r filin’. Do bos’ apples font on da top o’ Jo pock medjer. De steel-trap krow’ when to talk. Haibtones don’t pick hard heads to drap on. De young rooster dai crow too louil is ’lectioneerin’ for a lickin’. Tail tree make do s uVI s.euy. Do rod bird luh to drink whar lie kin see hisse’f in de water. De top o’ de hill is harder to find dan de bottom. De wood-pile ’fin'd o’ do norf wind. De s’inglo tree got to stan’ heap <F kickin’. Dus’ don’ settle on do meal-box. A shotgun kin oat vote a good-sizd’ comp’ny o’ watermelon hunters. A man dat cut his finger don’t brag on his knife while de blood runnin’. Do rabbit kiu make de bes’ time when he trabbliu’ for his health. Dur’s a bad streak in folks dat think de whole wul’ is a pentencli’ry. One dead boo-martin is wuf a hundred live ones. De shirt-buttons he’p de looks o’ things, but de gallus-bnttons do de solid wuk. De right sort o’ ’ligion heaps de halfbushel. De steel hoe dat laughs at de iron one is like de man dat is ’shamed o’ his grand daddy. ’Tnin’t, wuf findin’ out who gits de bes’ of a goat swap. When de bait is wuf mo’ an’ de fish. *tis time to stop fisliin’. Old Satan couldn’t git ’long widout plenty o’ he'p. De buggy-whip can’t make up for light feed in de horse-trough. A mule kin tote so much goodness in his face dat he don’t hab none lef’ for his hind legs. De price o’ tamo coons don’t poster many folks. Some grabble walks may load to de jail. De bes’ bravery is de sort dat ainifc skeered o’ de hot sun. De lead steer know when de whipcracker mended. De billy-goat gits in his liardes’ licks when he look like lie gwine to back out o’ de fight. , Better not pull down de empty jail. Little hole in your pocket is wnsser’a .a big one at de knee. Gap in de ax show itse’f in de chip. De dog on three legs ain’t alwavt lame. ’Tis mighty easy to run de track ob a roasted possum.