Judge — December 20, 1884 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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SAUCY, BUT SW ne, little girl, xing mea nice song. Well, let's go ‘round the corner then, and get some candy.” Another Lie Nailed Up. It is slyly whispered around the globe that Tam Bless your soul, I haven't got a lazy bone in my umbrella,” [have no dis- taste for work; i3 is one of my delights to sit and read about all kinds of work, and you have no idea how much exercise it is and what an appetite it gives me for dinne’ if you would see me eat you would not think there was any laziness about me. My land- lady says [ work harder at the table than any of the rest of the boarders, There is not a minute in the twenty-four hours that I am not doing something, breathing or something clze. You never catch me s down and quitting breathing for an hour or two like sume pecrle want to, I am too industrious for t! I maintain that work is the most enobling of all avocations, and always keep telling them so. When I have a man working for me it never makes me tired, no matter how hard he works, he might work himself to death and you never hear me complaining. hy, when I was young and followed a trade for exercise, my boss used tosay that [ could put off more work than any other hand he had; he said [ was always putting it off, and yet it never seemed to exhaust me much, No matter how hot itis, Tecan roll up m. sleeves und pitch in and rest harder than al. most anybody else, and you don’t hear me grunting, like some. Talk about me doing no work! asingle instance. Is it not the very hardest work in this world for me to pay my bills? Don’t it make me sweat? You have no idea how much [ weigh when I get set down in a chair, and I rather lke theso avocations which require sitting down todo, I have sat half the night working at whist, and J have always thought that, aboveall other trad would like to be a shoemaker ora especially in dull times, I could accomplish the sitting part and not half try. If 1 had to work every week from Saturday night till Sunday morning, [© kd not ran making a fuss abont and acting ridic I waa never tired to death in all my life, and I have witnesses to prove Ever since I started ont for myself, | have been most industriously engaged in growing, and vei ry few men have made a better job of it. I ul- ne et up when the snn is up and goto when it is down, and am dreadfully ng Look at | w: THE JUDGE. all the time, I never opposed to sleeping You ought to see me run away from work, sitting around where the carpenters are put- ting up a new bi and they say I seem to kvow more about the work than they do themselves, a firmly believe most everybody ou | something, or sce that it is done honest and honorable for some people My father never had any trouble about getting me to work, like some fathers have. because whenever he wanted me to thing right quick healways asked my John to doit, and [saw that it was done, Some boys would go howl round about it, but I never cid; and especially when there was wood to saw I always was there with a bacon rind to gr and my father used to say that he never saw boy who could swing a scythe farth than Tcould. I was raised on a far certainly that isa place where laziness em never thrive. I left home wit wmeent in my pocket, and made my own way, thongh [owas born withont an education, My t er always said that I worked hard ever | my studi if L would only get down fo the stidies; and no scholars ever got aluad of me without they get above me. Work! why, I like even to labor under a mistake ora hallucination. I love the very money that a workingman get T have net hesitated to seize the plebeian handles of a wheelbarrow and go ulong the streets with Simpson in it, just after election, T even work like smoke to get outof work. My mother used to think Iwas of such prom inence in the household that she used to point to me and say, * there is the rest of the family.” Of course, she meant that 1 was the balance of it. I never run after a railroad train or a street cur. There ure lots of things I don’t do. My neighbors say too mi nt T low to be quiet. If I intend t work I thoroughly consider it in bearings to be sure of it. This only takes a few I would make a good plumber if it w for the plumbing. I take no part in walking matches, and avoid overheating myself at | anything, as it is not healthy. Some people think that work is a terrible thing, bat. la me, I don’t think anything atallof it. The intervals between work 1 always did enjoy, and I don't care how hard Tam expected to rest [can always accomplish i torily However, I never did quite get it down ro fine us to look on labor as a recreation, but necessity when all things else fail us, ud the man who won't work like a Turk will get no sympathy or job of 1 T cannot sco how the report was luzy. It ast hes me. E been lately thinking of coming out next y workingman’s candidate for governor. This report may injure my canso. ht to do hs say BROWN, eshed for my lite dangerous. The ? well, he’s only “Wrat's that you've got here?” an acquaintance, Shotgun, bo ‘Why, this thing’ from tench aud. whipped s jawyer, Appar we were mistaken in thinking that wll gal talent inthe country was conGned to Verinont.—Prrlivgton Free Press. Aw Indian has sneceeded in training a ber of parrots for ope The- atrical managers shonld procure one at on so that in case the prima donna is taken sick a substitnte may be had immediately.”— Loston Lost. id they are good workmen, 1} CELTIC CONGRATULATION A Hard C. of the principles of at Oh! well, afl attor what he said.” was a hicke aas Siflings, in the garden and reads a Ilis hopeful, bandy-legged son, bont hunting for blackberries. sup to his parent and asks: “Papa, have blickberrics got lege? “Of course, they haven't got any legs, away dd dowt ask me a more vs when Dam busy reading.” round, but seems to have mind. Ife toddles up to news toddles he questi toddle you want now, you little Uackberries have got legs. use. ‘They haven't got legs, you fon hi boy. sThen Thas j st cat up a straddle bug.” | —Texas Siflin, | Rio Grande Politics. | Ow election day a gentleman at Laredo, nthe Rio Grande, observed a large number of Mexicans in town, “Where do all from? the tran *From the other side of the river,” r plied a candidate, “What are they going to do over here?” “O! they are guing to be voted.” “What for? a dollar apiece.” that’s outrageous, itistvo high, but what can we do | about Our opponents, the reformers, have ran ny the prices onus. Before the reform | ty was organized we could yet all the Me votes we necded, delivered at spotcush, I d to office asked | tell von it takes moi | on the Rio Grande. comicbooks.com