I hav spent a grate deal ov sarching, and sum money, tew find out who
waz the first whissler, but up tew now i am just az mutch uncivilized on
the subjekt az i waz.
I kan tell who played on the first juice harp, and who beat the fust tin
pan, and i kno the year the harp ov a thousand strings waz diskovered
in, but when whissling waz an infant, iz az hard for me tew say, az mi
prayers in lo dutch.
[Illustration: WHISSLING.]
Whissling iz a wind instrument, and iz did bi puckring up the mouth, and
blowing through the hole.
Thare aint no tune on the whole earth but what kan be played on this
instrument, and that selebrated old tune, Yankeedoodle haz bin almost
whissled tew deth.
Grate thinkers are not apt tew be good whisslers, in fakt, when a man
kant think ov nothing, then he begins tew whissell. We seldom see a
raskal who iz a good whissler, thare iz a grate deal ov honor bright, in
a sharp, well puckered whissell.
Good whisslers are gitting skarse, 75 years ago they waz plenty, but the
desire tew git ritch, or tew hold offiss, haz took the pucker out ov
this honest, and cheerful amuzement.
If i had a boy, who couldn't whissell, i don't want tew be understood,
that i should feel at liberty, tew giv the boy up for lost, but i would
mutch rather he would kno how tew whissell fust rate, than to kno how
tew play a seckond rate game ov kards.