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Southland Times, Issue 643, 13 March 1867, Page 3

We cull the following " advertisement " from the pen of " Josh Billings," the George Eobins of America : — " I kan sell for eighteen hundred and thirty-nine dollars, a pallas, a sweet and pensive retirement, lokated on the virgin banks ov the Hudson, kontaining eighty-five acres. The land is luxuriously divided by the hand of natur and hart, into pastor and tillage, into plain and deklivity, into stern habruptness, and the dalliance ov moss-tutted medder ; streams of sparkling gladness (thick with trout) dance through this wildness of buty, tew the low muisk ov the kticket and grosshopper. The evergreen sighs az the evening zephyr flits through its shadowy buzzum, and the aspen trembles like the luv-stnit-ten harte ov a damsell. Emits of ihe tropicks, in golden buty, melt on the bows, and the bees go heavy and sweet from the fields to their garnering hive. The stables are worthy of the steeds of Uimrod or the studs of Akilep, and its henery was tilt expressly for the birds ot Paradise; while lomber in the distance, like the cave of a hermit, glimpses are caught ov tho dorg house. Here poeto have come and warbled their lazee, here iculptors have cut, here painters have robbed the vcene ov dreamy landskape, and here the philosopher diskovered the stun, which made him the alkimist ov natur A s the young moon hangs like a cutting ov silver from the blu breast of the j iki an angel may be seen each' night dansing with golden tiptoes on the grfsea, (N.8."-!^ M*gol