The second day it reminds you of brine out of an old musty pork barrel.
The third day it tastes like See water near a New York dock.
Afterwards it begins improvin' until bimebye I would as leave have it as Gin and Tansy.
All the Springs heer are well patronized. Neerly as much so as the bars at the Drinkin' Saloons.
The High Rock Spring is a first-class curiosity.
A good comfortable income could be got out of a quarry which prodooced such stuns as the one from which High Rock water flows.
One of _the_ institushuns of this summer resort is Mister MORRISSEY'S Club-house.
The Hon. JOHN is more of a success at Congress hauls, Saratogy, than he is at the Halls of Congress, Washington, D.C.
When other members git on their high-heeled butes at Washington, debatin' about the admishun of another State, JOHN'S voice is silent.
When debatin' the grate public question of
JOHN is the most elokent man in Saratogy.
If any individual don't beleeve what I say, let him buck agin Mr. M., and he will diskiver that the product of his experience will "Bite like a Jersey skeeter, and sting like one of Recorder HACKETT'S sentences."
As my wife's second cuzzin lives heer, I shall be heer occashonly doorin' the summer seesun, a visitin' her.
I like it heer as a visitor--at Mrs. G's. cuzzin's house, altho', in her eccentricity, she sumtimes doesn't have dinner while I am around, and often she locks the door when I am out after dark.
I sometimes think her family would enjoy theirselves full as well if I wasent there.
A nawin' sensashun withinto me announces the hour of dinner. I must close.
As NAPOLEON remarkt, when he herd that the _Plebiscotum_ had come out ahead:
"_Rest a cat in pase, Hunc e doreo_" which is a furrin tongue.
_Bach_.--A courtship should continue at least two weeks before an offer of marriage is made.
An engagement should not last longer than from two to five days; marriage for an indefinite period.
We will answer your inquiries about divorce in our next.
_X.Y.Z_.--JACK is the common abbreviation for the name JOHN.
_R_.--If a man has a number of small children, (waifs,) would it be too thin to call him a wafer?
_Answer_.--Are the children male or female?
_Cris Pin_.--We do not know that the Chinese have ever been distinguished as manufacturers of shoes. It is possible, however, that they excel in making slippers, as they are known to be a very slippery people.