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From: "Jackie M. Botala" <>
Subject: [VERMONT-L] more old papers...
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 11:28:29 -0700


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Folk Say- Proverbs and Expressions

A dog that will bring home a bone will carry one.

There is nothing to be gained by airing dirty linen.

Wet as a sop.

Where in tunket.

Where in time.

(Contributed by Maud A. Jackson, Windsor)

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Tuzzie muzzie- a little old fashioned mixed bouquet about
three inches across.

(From Aunt Serena's column, Barre Times, October 1948)

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Colder than a dead lamb's tongue.

Hotter than love in July.

Hotter than Hannah.

Blacker than a stack of black cats.

Taking pins out of ones fingers- doing dreader jobs that
have accumulated.

The whisk of a jiffy.

Self praise don't go a great ways.

Home is home, if it's ever so homely.

(contributed by Florence E. Waters, Bondville)
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Slower than the "Grace of God" going to a nigger's funeral.

(contributed by Mary F. Ainsboror, Derby)
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RIde and tie-Take a buggy to a meeting and tie it up.

Jumped around like a frog in a butter churn.

(contributed by Frances S. Lovell, Bellows Falls)

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