How They Do Talk
About
For the Year 1870
“Giv me liberty, or giv me deth, but if i kant hav either, giv me Josh Billings’ allminax for 1870.”
“It kured mi wife ov wanting to die.”
“It iz like peper sass in a hot day.”
“The Billings Allminax will go father in a family than 12 dozen ov ginger popp.”
“When i am sad and lonely, i fli tew its pages, like a bumblebee tew a full blown dandylion.”
“It gave me grate presence ov mind.”
“My wife brings up her ophspring, and duz all her plain sowing bi yure allminaxes.”
“How cooling, and perforating it iz.”