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Thread #19803 Message #4058978
Posted By: Lighter
12-Jun-20 - 02:12 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Coming Home from the Wake/Nellie Milkmaid
Subject: RE: Origins: Coming Home from the Wake/Nellie Milkmaid
U.S. reference (very possible) or coincidence?:
The Lafayette [La.] Advertiser (Feb. 22, 1890), p. 9:
"This well bred trotting stallion, The Knight of Momus, will make his next season...at the stable of J. D. Breaux [etc.]....The Knight of Momus, sired by Seth Warner, Sr., and Nellie the Milkmaid, a Kentucky Messenger mare...."
"Momus" was the minor Greek deity of satire and satirical humor.