Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1889 — Bucolic Sayings. [ARTICLE]

Bucolic Sayings.

The phrases of country people are picturesque enough, says the Boston Courier, and one who take? the trouble to pick them up is not loog in making an interesting collection. As a contribution to such a collection m ty be offered a couple of remarks njade by a woman in the rural district* of Maine. In spanking of a neighbor who was remarkable for her thinness the old lady observed in her squeaky voice and with the usual twinkle in her eye: “Well, yes; Mirandy an’t go no more flesh on her bones than there is on a hen's forehead.” On another occasion, when the old lady was considerably exercised concerning the doings and sayings of a neighbor who often excited her disap. provnl, she broke out with: “And as for that Maria Jones, she's jest a piece of the old* boy left in the world for seed and that’s jest what she *s and nothin' else.” . * . '(