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But you see this China potato first got a going in a political 

 paper, and folks swallowed it whole as if it was all accord 

 ing to Gunter. But you see, the fellow that wrote about 

 it was a cute chap, cyphering up a good speculation for 

 himself, instead of calculating for the good of the public. 

 The fellow promised too much by half. If he had only 

 said he had got a good thing, and wanted folks to try it, 

 it would have looked more reasonable. But when he came 

 to talk about its feeding all China, and that it was soon 

 going to feed all America, it was going a leetle too far. 

 The funniest part of the whole story was, that he expected 

 ministers were such greenhorns as to believe the whole of 

 it, just as if the doctrine of total depravity had never been 

 heard of in Connecticut. I doubt whether he goes to meet 

 ing much. The only safe way for us to avoid humbugs is 

 to take a good agricultural paper, and keep up with the 

 times.&quot; 



Meeting adjourned. 



NO. 12. TIM BUNKER ON AN OLD SAW. 



MR. EDITOR : You need not think that any of my neigh 

 bors have grown envious of ray getting the premiums, and 

 rode me out on a rail, or on one of the above articles, tooth 

 side up. And you needn t suppose I am going to write 

 about a saw, though it s a very convenient tool about a 

 farmer s workshop. But you see there is a saying, &quot;Penny 

 wise, pound foolish,&quot; that is always a see-sawing up and 

 down in some folks mouths, that they call an old saw, as 

 they do all such like proverbs. I expect they call em so, 

 because of the teetering process which such sayings are 

 always undergoing. There is a deal of pith in em, as a 



