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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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[Illustration: Josh Billings visits the new Skating Pond, and witnesses
a rather interesting accident, which he describes as "a living lovely
mass ov disastrous skirt and tapring ankle."--_See page 12._]


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.


                                                                 PAGE

      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