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JOSH BILLINGS ON ICE,

And Other Things.

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_A NEW COMIC WORK_

JUST PUBLISHED, UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME, ENTITLED

Josh Billings, His Book.

WITH TWELVE COMIC ILLUSTRATIONS.

[Symbol: Asterism] Copies sent by mail free of postage, on receipt of price, $1.50 by

G. W. CARLETON & CO., Publishers. New York.

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JOSH BILLINGS ON ICE,

And Other Things.

With Comic Illustrations by J. H. Howard.

NEW YORK: Carleton, Publisher, Madison Square. London: S. Low, Son & Co. M DCCC LXX.

Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1868, by G. W. Carleton & Co., In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

THIS BOOK

IZ DEDICATED TO

AMAZI BARBOUR,

TEW LIQUIDATE A DET OV $17-50/100 THAT I OWED HIM.

JOSH BILLINGS.

CONTENTS.

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I.--JOSH ON ICE 11

II.--SUM NATRAL HISTORY 14

III.--LIVE YANKEES 20

IV.--LINCH PINS 23

V.--GOOSE TALK 26

VI.--JOSH BILLINGS: HIZ SHADE TREE 28

VII.--JOSH CORRESPONDS FREELY WITH 3 FELLOWS 31

VIII.--MONOGRAFFS 36

IX.--HONESTA IS THE BEST POLICY 39

X.--GREAT AGRIKULTURAL HOSS-TROTT 42

XI.--JOSH BILLINGS DEFINES HIS POSITION 46

XII.--COLD PIECES 47

XIII.--LETTER FROM JOSH BILLINGS 50

XIV.--WISDOM CHUNKS 54

XV.--BILLIARDS 58

XVI.--JOSH BILLINGS "RIZES" 60

XVII.--BILLINGS ON PILLS 63

XVIII.--JOSH IN SARATOGA 66

XIX.--SUM VEGETABLE HISTORY 72

XX.--JOSH REPLIES TO CORRESPONDENTS 77

XXI.--LIST OF HOUSEN TEW LET 80

XXII.--LAUGHING 83

XXIII.--LYING 85

XXIV.--PERKUSSION CAPS 87

XXV.--ONE WEEK FROM MY DIARY 91

XXVI.--AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY 94

XXVII.--LOVE 96

XXVIII.--THE GAME OF YEWKER 98

XXIX.--NOW AND THEN 100

XXX.--OATS 103

XXXI.--WATERFALLS 106

XXXII.--POLITENESS 109

XXXIII.--DREAMS 111

XXXIV.--JOSH CORRESPONDS 113

XXXV.--NEWS CUT FROM OUR EXCHANGES 118

XXXVI.--DEAD BEATS 122

XXXVII.--SPRING--MAY, 1868 125

XXXVIII.--HARTES 127

XXXIX.--MONOGRAFFS 128

XL.--JOSH BILLINGS AND THE LEKTUR COMMITTY 133

XLI.--ORPHAN CHILDREN 137

XLII.--BILLINGS REPLIZE TEW CORRESPONDENTS 140

XLIII.--CHIPS FROM THE BUTT CUT OF WISDUM 143

XLIV.--ESSA ON SWINE 146

XLV.--ON SEWING MACHINES 148

XLVI.--SUM ADVISE 150

XLVII.--TAKE IT EASY 153

XLVIII.--JOSH CORRESPONDS 155

XLIX.--THEM GOOD OLD DAZE 159

L.--A HUM TRANSACTION 161

LI.--MILK, WHISKEE AND BEER 164

LII.--PLUCK 170

LIII.--FREE LOVE 171

LIV.--FAST MEN 173

LV.--JOSH REPLIZE TO ONE OF HIZ CORRESPONDENTS 175

LVI.--HUMAN HAPPINESS 177

LVII.--PHILOSOPHEE OV THE BILLINGS FAMILEE 180

LVIII.--AMERIKANS 183

LIX.--JOSH CLEANS OUT HIS PIGEON-HOLE OF CORRESPONDENTS 186

LX.--JOSH CHAWS HIS CUD 190

LXI.--MONOGRAFFS 193

LXII.--JOSH TALKS 198

LXIII.--GIMBLETS 203

LXIV.--MORE CORRESPONDENTS 205

LXV.--SOME NATRAL HISTORY 210

LXVI.--SLIVVERS OF THOUGHT 216

LXVII.--THE BUZZERS 219

LXVIII.--MONOGRAFFS 223

LXIX.--PHILOSOPHEE ON THE HALF-SHELL 227

LXX.--JOSH EPISTOLATES 229

LXXI.--ALMINAK FOR 1869 234

LXXII.--SUM NATRAL HISTRY 239

LXXIII.--MONOGRAFFS 242

LXXIV.--JOSH DOES UP HIS CORRESPONDENTS 247

LXXV.--CUPID ON A RAISE 251

LXXVI.--JOSH COMMENCES WITH HIS FRIEND 255

LXXVII.--JAW BONES 259

LXXVIII.--MORE PHILOSOPHY 260