Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1869 — Heads. [ARTICLE]

Heads.

A SCHOOL BOV’S COMPOSITION. Hbads are of different shapes and different sizes. They are fall of notions. Large heads do not always hold the most Some -persons can tell just what a man is by the shape of his head. High heads are the best kind. Very knowing people are called long headed. A fellow that wen’t stop for anything or anybody is called hot-headed. If he isn’t quite so bright, they call him soft-headed; if he won’t be coaxed nor turned, they call him pig-head-ed. Animals have very small heads. The heads of fools slant back. When your head is cut off you are beheaded. Our heads are all covered with hair, except bald Heads. There are other kinds of heads besides our heads. First there are Barrel-heads. Second, there are Pinheads. Third, Heads of sermons—sometimes a minister used to have fifteen heads to one sermon. Fourth, Headwind. Fifth, Head of cattle—when a former reckons np his cows and oxen he calls them so many head of cattle Six. Drumheads—drumheads are made of sheepskin. Seventh, Heads or tails—when you toss up pennies. Eighth, Doublheaderß—when you let off rockets. Ninth, come to a head—libs a boil or a rebellion Tenth, Cabbageheads—dunces are called cabbageheads, and good enough for them. Eleventh, At Loggerheads —when you don’t agree. Twelfth. Heads of chapters. Thirteenth, Head him dff—when you want to stop a bone, or a boy. Fourteenth, Head of the family. Fifteenth, A Blunderhead Sixteenth, The Masthead—where they send sailors to punish them. Seventeenth, get up to the head—when you spell the word right. Eighteenth, The Head of a stream—where it begins. Nineteenth, Down by the head—when a vessel is deep loaded at the bows Twentieth, a-. Figurehead curved on a vsssfel Twenty-first, The Cathead, and that's the end of a stick of timber that a ship’s wtchor hangs by. Twepty-second, A Headland, or cape. Tweaty-third, A Head of Tobacco. T wenty-fourih, a Balk-' hrod, which Is a partition in » ship. Twenty-fifth, Go ahead— but lint be sore you anrtyhL ' - >