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Billings, Josh, 1818-1885 [1866], Josh Billings, hiz sayings. With comic illustrations. (Carleton, New York) [word count] [eaf674T].
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LXXVIII. DOMESTIK RECEIPTS IN FULL.

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Tew sarve up cowcumbers — pick them when the
dew is on them, pare them neatly, slice them thin,
add salt and let them stand for 60 minnitts, pepper
them freely, add good sharpe vinegar, and then —
raze up the window carefully, and throw them out.

Tew make watermelons the old fashioned wa —
steal them bi moonlite, and eat them in the next lot.

Lobsters want tew be boiled whole till they are
ded, pour ice cream over them, send for the docktor,
eat them before going tu bed, and tell yure friends
the next da, that yu hav bin threatened with an attak
ov the — rebbels.

Tew remove goose pimples — skin the goose.

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Tew kure hams — bathe them in Hostetter's Bitters.

Tew bring up a child in the wa he should go —
travel that wa yourself.

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Billings, Josh, 1818-1885 [1866], Josh Billings, hiz sayings. With comic illustrations. (Carleton, New York) [word count] [eaf674T].
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