Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1892 — Quote It Correctly. [ARTICLE]

Quote It Correctly.

<; A mistake that is very generally made,” said Gen. RoSecranz at Willard's last evening, “is in the popular phrase ‘Everything is lovely and the goose hangs high.' Now, this is entirely wrong. It should read, ‘Everything is lovely and the goose honks high? This saying originated away up in the northern estates, where, in rainy, foggy or stormy weather, it is a well-know fact that the geese fly low—skimming along over the very house tops. In fine and pleasant weather you Will remember that they fly in long strings so high in the heavens that their peculiar cry, ‘Honk, honk,’can scarcely be heard on the earth below, hence the old saying that everything i§ lovely when ‘the goose’ ‘honks’ ‘high,’ and not ‘hangs high,' which is a most nonsensical perversion of 4J>&-OFiginnl ..old. New England saying."—Wasington Post.