Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1915 — Adage Traced to Bible. [ARTICLE]

Adage Traced to Bible.

“A little bird told me,” ie an almost universal adage based on the idea that this übiquitous wanderer from the vantage of the upper air spies out all strange and secret things and tell* them to those who can understand. Thus in Ecclesiastes 1©:*0: “Curse* not the king, no; not in any thought; and curse not the rich * in thy bedchamber; for the bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath) wings shall tell the matter.”