Wimmin az a kind, or in the lump, are poor whizzlers, i don't kno how i
found this out, but i am glad ov it, it iz a good deal like crowing in a
hen.
Crowing iz an unladylike thing in a hen tew do.
I hav often heard hens tri tew cro, but i never knu one tew do herself
justiss.
A rooster kan krow well, and a hen kan kluk well, and i sa let each one
ov them stik tew their trade.
Klucking iz jist az necessary in this wurld az crowing espeshily if it
iz well did.
But i want it well understood that i am the last man on reckord who
would refuse a woman a chance tew whissell if she waz certain she had
the right pucker for it.
I never knu a good whissler but what had a good constitushun. Whissling
iz compozed ov pucker and wind, and these two accomplishments denote
vigor.
Sum people alwus whissell whare thare iz danger--this they do to keep
the fraid out ov them. When i waz a boy i alwus konsidered whissling the
next best thing to a kandle to go down cellar with in the nite time.
The best whisslers i hav ever heard hav bin amung the negroes (i make
this remark with the highest respekt to the accomplishments ov the
whites), i hav herd a south karoliny darkey whissell so natral that a
mocking-bird would drop a worm out ov hiz bill and talk back to the
nigger.
I dont want enny better evidence ov the general honesty thare iz in a
whissell than the fackt that thare aint nothing which a dog will answer
quicker than the wissell ov hiz master, and dogs are az good judges ov
honesty az enny kritters that live.
It iz hard work to phool a dog once, and it iz next to impossible to
phool him the sekond time.
I aint afraid to trust enny man for a small amount who iz a good
whissler.
I wouldn't want to sell him a farm on credit, for i should expekt to hav
to take the farm back after awhile and remove the mortgage miself.
Yu cant whissell a mortgage oph from a farm.
A fust rate whissler iz like a middling sized fiddler, good for nothing
else, and tho whissling may keep a man from gitting lonesum, it wont
keep him from gitting ragged.
I never knu a bee hunter but what waz a good whissler, and i dont kno ov
enny bizzness on the breast ov the earth that will make a man so lazy
and useless, without acktually killing him, az hunting bees in the
wilderness.
Hunting bees and writing seckond rate verses are evidences ov sum
genius, but either of them will unfit a man for doing a good square
day's work.