[Sca-cooks] [Sca-cooks]OT-The One True Tigger

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Anne Murphy wrote:
> Thank you! I've been trying to place that line! I worked for someone like
> that, for about  a year. (Only once a week, usually... my nerves couldn't
> have taken more.)
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> You don't happen to remember where this line was, do you?
>
> Anne
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>>[Original Message]
>>From: Ted Eisenstein <Alban at socket.net>
>>To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
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>  > Date: 8/30/01 10:41:39 PM
>
>>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] [Sca-cooks]OT-The One True Tigger
>>
>>. . . . on the other hand, the one line from an English-speaking
>>humor-oriented author I can always remember is
>>"He jumped onto his horse, and rode madly off in all four
>>directions."
>>(Stephen Leacock, Canadian, if memory serves. . . )

The above is from a Stephen Leacock short story called "Gertrude the
Governess". FWIW, I believe the actual quote does not include the word
"four".

Adamantius
--
Phil & Susan Troy

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