Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1892 — Sit and Set. [ARTICLE]

Sit and Set.

The use of the words “sit” and “set” is well defined in the following example: A man, or woman either, can set a hen, although they cannot sit her, neither can they set on her, although the old hen might sit on them by the hour if they would allow. A man cannot set on the wash-stand, but he could set the basin on it, and neither the basin nor the grammarians would object. He could sit on the dog’s tail, if the dog were willing, or he might set his foot on it. But if he should set on the aforesaid tail or sit his foot there, the grammarians as well as the dog would howl. And yet, strange as it may seem, the man might set the tail aside and than sit down, and neither be assaulted by the dog nor the grammarians. The fellow who stole the contribu-tion-box at Goshen', Ind., is Supposed to have just returned from the seashore.—Columbus Post.