Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1910 — PROVERBS OF THE HIGHWAY [ARTICLE]

PROVERBS OF THE HIGHWAY

Rise wid de lark, an’ w*en meat to higher'll you kin reach, ketch de lark an’ br’lle him fer br’akfast. Many a man dat wears out de knees of his britches prayin’ gits mad an’ falls from grace kaze .Providence don’t give him a new pair. Moses wuz a great man, though he wuz found In de bullrush; but es he lived in dis day an* time I doubt es he could stand a bull rush In Wall street. Job growled kaze he had two friends; but he’d ’a’ raised de roof es he’d had a friend on ever’ corner, waitin’ ter ax him ter indorse his note. You don’t rlckemize de Happy Lan’ when you is in it; dat’s why you alius lookin’ fer It whar it never wuz an* never will be. Bar’ll be a lonesome time on de streets o’ heaven es Bom,e o’ de speculators git In de gate, only ter diskiver dat it ain’t no use ter corner de gold market—Atlanta Constitution.