77. LXXVII.
JAW BONES.
Genius iz like a hop vine; it will run, and spread,
enny how, and hav a whole lot ov wild hops on it,
but tew be a good krop, it must be poled, and cut
back, and suckered.
Precept iz a buck saw—experience the elbo grease
that runs the cussid instrument.
Don't talk tew much, Jessie; one half the wisdum
ov this world consists in not saying ennything.
Thare iz nothing more dangerous tew most men
than praize; it iz like filling them up with gunpowder,
and then tutching them oph.
Patience, if it iz merely constitushional, don't appear
tew me to be enny more ov a virtue than kold
feet are.
