Mudcat Café message #4059159

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Thread #19803 Message #4059159
Posted By: Lighter
13-Jun-20 - 08:08 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Coming Home from the Wake/Nellie Milkmaid
Subject: RE: Origins: Coming Home from the Wake/Nellie Milkmaid

Here's a surprising mention in the United States.

Philadelphia Journal of Homeopathy IV (1856), p. 329:

        Her apron grew short and her heart it did ache,
                And she thought upon the fall coming home from the wake
                She thought upon the fall coming home!