ANST - Period Scams?
    Jane Sitton-Logan/James D. Logan 
    myrnarae at nts-online.net
       
    Tue Mar 30 21:43:15 PST 1999
    
    
  
Bon jour from Madelina de Lindesaya!
Crescentia _ wrote:
> I do know that that's where the expression "let the cat out of the bag"
> came from-- a person might think they were buying a piglet in a sack,
> but an unscrupulous dealer might put a cat in there instead.  
Interestingly enough, that same practice is also the origin of the
phrase, "never buy a pig in a poke (bag)".
Amicalement,
M.
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