JOSH BILLINGS SAYS

At the commencement of the football season, the following monody on that sport by the eminent philologist, Josh Billings, is appropriate: "I never saw a real prize fite, I saw a fut-ball game. First a man kiks the ball; then the boys each each other round the nex and roll in the mud; then one man yells hell and they get up in a line and the men on the end they get up and danse; then the boys on the fense they laf. When a man runs with the ball they catch him and sit on his neck; then he goze home and another man takes his place; then one man kiks the ball and the other side yells fowl; then they sware. My brother Bill, before the game, said he was laying for one of those damfreshmen. When he came down to the feeld in his sute the boys on the fens they yelled: 'it came from New York on the breeze.' When he came home with his leg broke I asked him if he fixed the freshman. An my sister's young man laffed and said not this eve, and Bill he kust."