. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . DAY BLUNDERS. Now, we make as many blunders in language as the say. we shell peas when we unshell them: we husk cornwhen we unhusk it ; we dust the furniture when we undustit : we skin a calf when we unskin it ; we weed a gawhen we unweed it; we unbend when we bend ; we boil the kettle, etc. I once sawa notice on a ferry are requesnot to leave the 1until made fast todock. A man. infence of tob , said :••Theres my father, lies in u k e s a n <1chews, and heis eighty y<old. - Ah,said his oppo-nent, if he hadnot
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . DAY BLUNDERS. Now, we make as many blunders in language as the say. we shell peas when we unshell them: we husk cornwhen we unhusk it ; we dust the furniture when we undustit : we skin a calf when we unskin it ; we weed a gawhen we unweed it; we unbend when we bend ; we boil the kettle, etc. I once sawa notice on a ferry are requesnot to leave the 1until made fast todock. A man. infence of tob , said :••Theres my father, lies in u k e s a n <1chews, and heis eighty y<old. - Ah,said his oppo-nent, if he hadnot used tolco, he mightsHlMM^IW$L\ I have been nine- ty by this tii:A coinpreacher said: There will bea In* days mi i11lx every night next week except Wednesday woman, rebuking her two boys, said: Now, if you don tquit. I 11 tell both your lathers. I heard a person say of hisneighbor, ••He died and made a will. A woman fell into awell, and said: -If it had not been for Providence andanother woman. I should never have got out. During an. FO DAYS MEETING. NATIONAL BLU3 said: a great pie dying .A minister announced, A _ - Idenly lasi S ath while I was :ieati a. Blundei -advertisements ••A., persons in this town _ - ted: Two a] ; the family. u L si: a_. •? ] sold: -forte, the mer. _ was:. tised for >f a pair of : rses fa religious[hen 1 of omii _ slat ses away back in the --I an up: _ e can- didal _ to leg - sjislator, . - ? : the lip, the unspoken , the shrug - -. U mptuous word at I _ Yet tin even among some en. Surely this Ls the _• - -- - or repress ntative has ma/. -- . • because every vote and • and all a of fain Ai wall of i th rock on whichId climb, f an office-seeker could such trickei?such lack of pri m true: v to muffin or r> lead flies in Hie ointment of 1 140 OUR NATIONS DISGRACE. tation of the whole body of legislators. When this is tnecase, somebody has blundered fearfully. Ought not .suchblunders to be charged to the electors, who
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