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Manager: Roger F. Hooper...
Manager: Roger F. Hooper...
Sympathy of practicality for Readers Hooper and Page who are worrying with hogs on ice and barn rats. Let Readers Hooper and Page try to catch a "hog on ice" and they will have no need of book-lore to explain the expression. Deferentially and apologetically to Reader Hooper; the expression in the hinterlands is not "pert as a barn rat," but applies to sundry persons who are described as having "the cheek of a privy rat." The bucolic rhythm beats only in the backwoods...
...ROBERT HOOPER Brooklyn...
TIME derived its explanation (TIME, July 25, p. 4) from able lexicographical authority, but in the face of such a common-sense consensus acknowledges its misguidance. Thanks to Readers Parker and Hooper for two more bacony phrases...