Subject: Miscellaneous (Page 39)

Quieter than a graveyard

He’s as tough as a boot.

The water won’t clear till you get the hogs out of the creek.

A face like a welder’s bench

I’m so confused I don’t know whether to scratch my watch or wind my butt.

Sure as a cat has a climbing gear

Well, slap my head and call me silly!

He could sell firewood in hell.

I do all I can… and the easy ones twice.

He is purse proud.

His front porch light is burnt out.

That possum's on the stump.

Cross my heart and hope to eat my weight in goslings.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

He’s so chincy, he can call his every dollar by its first name.

A near man with a dollar

Watermelon talk

Tell a story

It don’t take long to examine a hot horseshoe.

It's cold enough to hang meat in here.

Hornier than a two pecker'd billy goat on a hill full of ninnies.

He's as happy as if he had good sense.