49. XLIX.
THINGS THAT I DON'T HANKER AFTER TO
SEE.
A man out at the elbows, and his wife out tew a
woman's rites convenshun.
A yung lady ov more circumference than the diameter
ov her father's real estate.
A boy under 15 with over 15 bad habits.
A long bill at the tailor's, that belongs tew a short
Bill at the St. Nicholas.
A man who haz more hair under his nose than
knows under his hair.
A virgin who haz beat 40, afrade ov a rane bo.
A pollytision leading in prayer.
A man whoze houze wants painting a different culler
from hiz noze.
Charitee that evra boddy knowz ov.
A house so divided agin itself, that it dont kno
which wa tew fall.
“Augers that won't bore,” unless tha kan hav
the privilege ov splitting.
[ILLUSTRATION]
Josh Billings goes in bathing at Long Branch.—See page 133.
[Description: 674EAF. Illustration page. Image of a man standing in shallow water. The other bathers around him are all women in big sunhats and long pantaloons.]
