Word: mulekicker
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...outbreak of grisly jollity." When a man died, in-laws and out, friends, neighbors and creditors descended on the sobbing widow, who was expected to welcome them with all kinds of vittles-beef, ham, turkeys, oysters, fruit, cheese and sweets-as well as gallons of the local mulekick. After the corpse had been volleyed to Kingdom Come by the customary funeral fusillade, there was bowsing and bundling sparking and frisking on the green And in addition to the hospitality, the bereaved family was expected to provide mementos, usually rings or gloves (one clergyman, in 32 years of funeral-going received...
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