Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1891 — Whine or Whistle, Which? [ARTICLE]

Whine or Whistle, Which?

A small boy was chasing a somewhat bigger one the other day, when the bigger of the two stumbled and fell, l’he other tumbled over him and was hurt as much as the bigger one.i But the bigger boy was the biggest baby and began to whine and cry. The smaller one got up, brushed off the dirt, rubbed his barked knee and began to whistle. The other one looked at him a moment and then blabbered: “Jimmy, how can you whistle when it hurts so ?” “It doesn’t hurt so if yon whistle," said philosophical Jimmy. “It’s when you whine that it hurts so.” Whistle and whine begin alike, but they end differently. This is a world of compensations — snow comes down in the winter and ioe goes up in the summer.