I'm head "boss" now in the stables.
Josh stayed--and died--down at the 'Lands.
ON MARRIAGE.
BY JOSH BILLINGS.
Marriage iz a fair transaction on the face ov it.
But thare iz quite too often put up jobs in it.
It iz an old institushun, older than the pyramids, and az phull ov
hyrogliphicks that noboddy kan parse.
History holds its tounge who the pair waz who fust put on the
silken harness, and promised tew work kind in it, thru thick and
thin, up hill and down, and on the level, rain or shine, survive or
perish, sink or swim, drown or flote.
But whoever they waz they must hav made a good thing out ov it, or
so menny ov their posterity would not hav harnessed up since and drov
out.
Thare iz a grate moral grip in marriage; it iz the mortar that
holds the soshull bricks together.
But there ain't but darn few pholks who put their money in matrimony
who could set down and giv a good written opinyun whi on arth they
cum to did it.
This iz a grate proof that it iz one ov them natral kind ov
acksidents that must happen, jist az birds fly out ov the nest, when
they hav feathers enuff, without being able tew tell why.
Sum marry for buty, and never diskover their mistake; this iz lucky.
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