ANGLE WORMS.

Are ov arth, arthy, and crawl for a living. They liv in ritch ground;

ground that won't raize angle-worms won't raize ennything else, and

whare angle-worms rejoice, corn iz sure to be bully. If yu want yure

angleworms ov enny size, yu must manure yure sile. There aint nothing on

arth more miserable tew ponder over and weep about than a half starved

angle-worm. Angleworms are a sure crop on good sile, and handy tew hoe,

for they plant and harvest themselfs. They don't take up mutch room in

the ground, and are az kind tew childen az a piece ov red tape.

It iz sed by the naturalists that angle worm ile, rubbed on the rear ov

the neck, will kure a man ov the lies. I don't beleave this, unless it

kills the man. Death iz the only reliable heal for lieing that has bin

diskovered yet.

When lieing gits into a man's blood, the only way tew git it out, iz tew

drain him dry.

Angle worms are used az an artikle ov diet tew ketch fish with; they are

handy tew put onto a hook, and handy tew take oph, az enny boddy knows,

who haz straddled a saw log and fished for daice all day long Sunday in

a mill pond.

Old fishermen alwus carry their worms in their mouth.

Angle worms liv in a round hole, which they fit like a gimlet, and are

diffrent from aul other creeps that I kno ov, for they alwus back into

their holes.

Here the natral angle worm ends.

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