Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1912 — Carry Your Wagon. [ARTICLE]

Carry Your Wagon.

A northern man who had recently taken possession of a southern plantation found that in many ways the people spoke a different language from his own. By mistake a carload of supplies had been left at a railway station seven miles away and he was bothered about getting it to the plantation. “Why don’t you carry your wagon up and tote the things down?” a sympathizing southerner asked him. The northern man laughed heartily at this expression and repeated it to others. Instead of laughing they looked at him, wondering where the joke was, and he realized that to “carry” your wagon and tote things back was the proper idiomatic expression. He even heard young men asking young ladles if they might “carry” them to dances. ~New York Herald.