OR, THE WORLD HAS CHANGED. Ill 



Love is more severer than the grip when it pre-empts a 

 numan bosom. It cannot be properly called an epidemic, yet 

 a fellow is likely to take it at most any time before he grets 

 married, and he can take it more than two times also, but the 

 first attack in some cases is considered the worstest, it makes 

 its appearance in some instances, sudden like the measles, then 

 again tardeous, like a cancer, or in a typhodity manner, there 

 is <^reater danger when it strikes in-nerd, than when it only 

 'shows on the outside, in the former case it is much to be 

 dreaded, for it has been khown to cause a man to go plum fool, 

 and has driven some persons to commit death upon themselves 

 or somebody else, and in every case where it strikes the interiro 

 portfolio, that patient ought to be scrutinized carefully, but 

 if it only shows on the superficial areas, there aint no immi- 

 nent danger, as the fellow will convaless, or get married, which 

 IS about the same thing in Dutch. 



And once more, there aint so much danger in the passion of 

 love if it visits the human bosom alone by itself, but like some 

 folks we know, it gits into bad company, if it gits m Avith envy, 

 hate, anger, and the green-eyed monster jealousy, why then 

 there is apt to be trouble, and it is strange they will associate 

 too-ether, fur they never could get along in peace and hominy; 

 I say, when all of these gits in thar together, its like a pack of 

 ravening wolves, and the fellow whats got that bosom is in a 

 bad fix, sure, and there's another thing goes into the human 

 bosom when the door is open, and that is licker, and its a reg- 

 ular ag-ger on of fusses and other devilment, and the more of 

 it that goes in, the worse it is for the fellow and the whole 

 settlement. 



It is said that a perseii looses his heart when the passions of 

 love gets a mortgage on it, this aint according to our polliticks; 



