Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1883 — Put His Foot in It. [ARTICLE]

Put His Foot in It.

According to the “Asiatic Researches” this phrase derives its origin from a custom in Hindoostan; when the title to* land is disputed, two holes are dug in the ground and used to encase a limb of each lawyer, and the one who tires first lost the case! In this country it is generally the client who “put his foot in.”