Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1881 — Aphorisms from the Quarters. [ARTICLE]

Aphorisms from the Quarters.

Scribner Bric-a-Brac. A sore-back mule is a poorriiaud to guess de weight of a bag of meal. . A fork in a strange road donii make a man any better Kwi&’chun. To-morrer’s ashcake is batu rin la9t Sunday’s puddin’. -f It don’t take no-prophet to-rickerlec’ bad luck. 'ton ’ t hab no loafers in de martinDe wire grass labs a lazv nigger. Daria right smart ’ligion in a plowhandle. Twelve erclock nebber is in a hurry. Nebber ’pend too much on de blackberry blpesoms. Don’t' bet on a ’tater hill before de grabblin’ time. A heap o’ good eotton-stalka gits hopped up sum ’soclatin’ wid de weeds. Many a nice corn silk winds up wid a nubbin’ in de fall. A chicken roos’ is de debbul’s steal trap, and a grassy corn row is his flower garden. ~ - / T De morniu’ glories ain’t peiiclwlei lubly to a man wid de backache j-