Identifier: ballofyarn00elto (find matches)
Title: The ball of yarn;
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Elton, (from old catalog)
Subjects: American wit and humor
Publisher: New York, P. J. Cozans
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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.S a> £3 bX3 fl ** a « ?.g.s =* „ 03 _r: ^^d 03 skS o » ■^03 »— 53 O ^K . ® 03 PENCIL-VA.LN-IA, or INKLINGS (not) BY WILLIS. ** SONS OF THE POTATO. Im a careless potato, and heed not a pin How into existence I came;If they planted me drill ways, or dibbled me in, To me tis exactly the same.The peas and the beans may more loftily tower, But why should 1 bend me to them .Defiance I nod, with my beautiful flower When the earth is hoed up to my stem. J PROFESSOR OF EVENING CONCERTS, HAVING THEUVMP OF BENEVOLENCE MUCH LARGER THAN..*i\NY L1ND, ALWAYS GIVES CONCERTS GRATIS.
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NO TIME ?or sw^^piwa HORSES. An Indiana man wastravelling down the Ohio,on a steamer, with a mareand two year old colt,when, by a sudden careenof the boat, all three weretilted into the river. TheHoosier, as he arose, puff- jing and blowing above thewater, caught hold of thecolt, not having a doubtthat the natural instinctof the animal would carryhim safe ashore. The oldmare took a bee linefor the shore; but thefrightened colt swam lus-tily down the currentwith its owner hangingfast. Let go the colt,and hang on to the oldmare, shouted some ofhis friends. Phreebooh! exclaimed theHoosier, spouting waterfrom his mouth, and sha-king his head like a New-foundland dog, if9 allvery ine, your telling meto let go the colt, but- to aman that cant swim, thisis not exactly the time forswapping horses. An English paper tellsthe following curious sto-ry :—An inquest was re-cently held over the bodyof a young man in Bristol,(Eng.,) named James Mitchell. Upon evidence it was stated, that the de-cea

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